YUM and yum.conf - for the interested one's

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:14:44PM +0000, Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 13:05, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > That is bug http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=289
> >
> > with the workaround
> >
> > yum install flac libFLAC4 libFLAC++2 libOggFLAC1
> >
> > or using the old yum, or apt-get.
> 
> Oh, OK, I'm happy now, are you saying my system has a bug? or have I fixed it 
> (I know you cant answer that without seeing the thing)

No, your system has no bug, the new yum has sometimes troubles finding
the right packages. Even though the packages are there it does not
resolve a transaction to install them, so you either have to tell yum
manually, or use another tool like yum20 or apt.

> I would have preferred to use synaptic with apt-get but I don't want to go 
> back to the state I was in under FC2 I had used up2date, yum and apt-get all 
> together and was never very happy with what was and wasn't installed in fact 
> although it worked (and at the moment better than FC3) I had lots of half 
> loaded stuff and other bits of dross all over the place so after 2yrs of use 
> I wiped it and did a fresh install with FC3 so I was initially a bit upset 
> that I had messed it up but everything seems fine now.

The tools should not interfere (unless you start them concurrently),
so you are safe to use them together. synaptic is really a nice UI for
checking out uninstalled packages, and simply clicking them onto your
system.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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