Problems after upgrading to F14

[JD]

On 03/29/2011 01:55 PM, JB wrote:
> JD<jd1008<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 03/29/2011 12:18 PM, JB wrote:
>>> JD<jd1008<at>   gmail.com>   writes:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>> This is my cure-all medicine:
>>>
>>> # yum-complete-transaction
>>> # yum clean all
>>> # yum distro-sync
>>> # yum check
>>> # package-cleanup --dupes | problems | orphans
>>>     if any dupes or problems show up, show us the output; ignore orphans
>>>     for now.
>>> # find /etc -iname "*.rpm*"
>>>     and reconcile them if any
>>> # ldconfig -v
>>> # prelink -aR
>>> # reboot
>>>
>>> Meltdown
>>>
>>> JB
>>>
>>>
>> Will this uninstall any packages I already have?
>>
> The only entry of interest would be:
> # yum distro-sync
>
> According to:
> $ man yum
> ...
>         distribution-synchronization or distro-sync
>                Synchronizes the installed package set with the latest  packages
>                available, this is done by either obsoleting, upgrading or down‐
>                grading as appropriate. This will "normally" do the  same  thing
>                as  the  upgrade  command  however  if  you have the package FOO
>                installed at version 4, and the latest available is only version
>                3, then this command will downgrade FOO to version 3.
>
>                This  command does not perform operations on groups, local pack‐
>                ages or negative selections.
> ...
>
> it may reshuffle some packages, but only for the good/integrity of
> the installation.
>
> JB
>
>
I did that. I did update a lot of fc13 packages to fc14.
But it still chocked on the dependencies that had other
packages depending on the very dependencies it tries
to update.
Yum simply does not seem to be able to handle this chain
of dependencies scenario.
I consider it broken!