(still) update conflict between kdelibs and kde-i18n-Polish

[Paul Howarth]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>  i'm still having a problem updating a very recently installed FC4
>>>system due to a number of alleged file conflicts between the following
>>>two packages:
>>>
>>>	kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
>>>	kde-i18n-Polish-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
>>>
>>>"yum list updates" tells me that these two package would both come
>>>from FC's "updates-released" repo, which makes perfect sense.  but
>>>they clash based on a number of files in /usr/share/doc.
>>>
>>>what's odd is that my long-running (and constantly-updated) FC4
>>>production system has both of those packages installed so, clearly,
>>>they must have been updated without problem at some point on this
>>>system.
>>>
>>>on the other hand, this new system was installed so recently that it
>>>has 469 packages that are listed as being updatable.  why the conflict
>>>on the new system and not the old one?  thoughts?
>>
>>Please post the output of:
>>
>>$ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kdelibs
>>kde-i18n-Polish
> 
> 
> currently, on the system with the update issues:
> 
> kdelibs-3.4.0-6.i386
> kde-i18n-Polish-3.4.0-1.noarch
> 
> which appear to be the original versions from the initial install.
> 
> on my production system (and the versions that the update is trying to
> update to):
> 
> kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.i386
> kde-i18n-Polish-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.noarch
> 
> 
>>Do you actually need the Polish translations for kde?
> 
> 
> obviously not, and i realize that i can undoubtedly delete that
> package to solve the problem, but i'm more curious about why it's
> causing the problem in the first place.
> 
> on a somewhat-related point, this is not the first time i've had a
> problem updating an FC4 system that was installed some time after the
> official release.
> 
> obviously, if you update on a regular basis, you probably won't have
> many issues.  on the other hand, if you update long after the official
> release, you're probably looking at literally hundreds of packages to
> be updated.  and it's *there* that i've occasionally had problems,
> just like is happening now.
> 
> like i said, i can easily delete the "Polish" package but that would
> delete the evidence of the problem. :-)

True. Let's try minimising the problem. Try this:

# yum --exclude=kdelibs --exclude=kde-i18n-Polish update

Does that update everything apart from the troublesome pair? If not, 
what goes wrong?

If it works, what's the full output of a subsequent "yum update"?

Paul.