Can't remove package from update manager

Germán A. Racca german.racca at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 13:35:39 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 04:53 -0700, Silent-Hunter wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wednesday 20 October 2010 09:49 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote:
> >>
> >> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ yum list zsnes\*
> >> Installed Packages
> >> zsnes.i586                    1.51-6.fc11         @rpmfusion-free
> >> Available Packages
> >> zsnes.x86_64                  1:1.51-2mdv2007.0                  _local
> >>
> >
> > Okay. Could you now post the output of this,
> >
> > $ yum repolist all
> >
> >> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ grep zsnes /var/log/yum.log
> >> Oct 17 23:26:03 Installed: 1:zsnes-1.51-2mdv2007.0.x86_64
> >> Oct 17 23:27:05 Erased: zsnes
> >> Oct 17 23:29:06 Installed: zsnes-1.51-6.fc11.i586
> >>
> >
> > Okay good, this shows you successfully removed the mandriva rpm and 
> > installed the successfully installed the proper Fedora rpm from 
> > RPMFusion.
> >
> >> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ rpm -qi zsnes-1.51-6.fc11.i586
> >> Name        : zsnes                        Relocations: (not 
> >> relocatable)
> >> Version     : 1.51                              Vendor: RPM Fusion
> >> Release     : 6.fc11                        Build Date: Sat 28 Mar 2009
> >> 07:03:20 AM PDT
> >>
> >
> > Okay this confirms that the installed rpm is indeed from RPMFusion.
> >
> >> I think what I need to do is remove zsnes-1.51-2mdv2007.0.x86_64 from
> >> the available packages list.
> >
> >
> > Yes, that is why I asked you to post the output of repolist. It would 
> > be good if you could also post maybe in the email or on some pastebin 
> > the contents of the .repo file corresponding to the repo _local.
> >
> > Also could you post the output of,
> >
> > $ find /var/cache/yum/ -type f -name 'zsnes*\.rpm'
> >
> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ yum repolist all
> Loaded plugins: aliases, auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, downloadonly,
>                : fastestmirror, filter-data, fs-snapshot, keys, 
> list-data, local,
>                : merge-conf, post-transaction-actions, presto, priorities,
>                : protectbase, ps, refresh-packagekit, 
> remove-with-leaves, rpm-
>                : warm-cache, security, show-leaves, tmprepo, tsflags, 
> upgrade-
>                : helper, verify, versionlock
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> updates/metalink                                         |  10 kB     00:00
>   * fedora: linux.mirrors.es.net
>   * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>   * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>   * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>   * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>   * updates: linux.mirrors.es.net
> _local                                                   | 3.0 kB     
> 00:00 ...
> adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B     00:00
> rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 2.8 kB     00:00
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                | 2.8 kB     00:00
> Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:
>    Current   : Thu Oct 14 08:28:42 2010
>    Downloaded: Mon Sep 20 23:09:32 2010
> updates                                                  | 4.7 kB     00:00
> updates/primary_db                                       | 5.0 MB     00:04
> 0 packages excluded due to repository protections
> repo id                                     repo name            status
> _local                                      Automatic local repo 
> enabled:    776
> adobe-linux-i386                            Adobe Systems Incorp 
> enabled:     18
> fedora                                      Fedora 13 - x86_64   
> enabled: 20,840
> fedora-debuginfo                            Fedora 13 - x86_64 - disabled
> fedora-source                               Fedora 13 - Source   disabled
> rpmfusion-free                              RPM Fusion for Fedor 
> enabled:    457
> rpmfusion-free-debuginfo                    RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-rawhide                      RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-rawhide-debuginfo            RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-rawhide-source               RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-source                       RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-updates                      RPM Fusion for Fedor 
> enabled:    515
> rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo            RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-updates-source               RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing              RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing-debuginfo    RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing-source       RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree                           RPM Fusion for Fedor 
> enabled:    156
> rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo                 RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide                   RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide-debuginfo         RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide-source            RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-source                    RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                   RPM Fusion for Fedor 
> enabled:    135
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo         RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source            RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing           RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing-source    RPM Fusion for Fedor disabled
> updates                                     Fedora 13 - x86_64 - 
> enabled:  7,270
> updates-debuginfo                           Fedora 13 - x86_64 - disabled
> updates-source                              Fedora 13 - Updates  disabled
> updates-testing                             Fedora 13 - x86_64 - disabled
> updates-testing-debuginfo                   Fedora 13 - x86_64 - disabled
> updates-testing-source                      Fedora 13 - Test Upd disabled
> repolist: 30,167
> _________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ find /var/cache/yum/ -type f -name 
> 'zsnes*\.rpm'
> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ find /var/cache/yum/ -type f -name 'zsnes*\.rpm'
> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ find /var/cache/yum/ -type f -name 'zsnes*\.rpm'
> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$
> 
> The above command does nothing. Tried three times.
> 
> Where are .repo files kept?

What is that repository called "_repo"? You can see the content of the
repo with this command:

$ repoquery --repoid=_repo -a

Configuration files for repos are here:
/etc/yum.repos.d/

-- 
Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://skytux.fedorapeople.org



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