Problem with Yum to upgrade Fedora 17.

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 13:42 -0300, Davi Garcia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all feedback! Sorry about post question to the wrong list
> and about my poor problem description. Let me try explain better:
> 
> I never decided to install Samba or Samba4 in my workstation, these
> packages were installed by default. I know that I'm using F17 that is
> still in beta, but I didn't know that alpha packages were being pushed
> to that repository. My problem is basically that Yum is not able to
> upgrade my system without use "--skip-broken".
> 
> Since Ed Greshko confirmed that is a known issue, I'll wait the fix.
> What is very confusing is why do we have alpha packages in a beta
> repo?
> 
> Again, sorry about any inconvenience.


Yes, the problem here is that some samba4 packages were pushed to
updates-testing that are marked as Obsoleting or otherwise replacing
their samba 3.x counterpart. This is bad, and anyone hitting this issue
should be adding negative karma to the update (as I am about to do).
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