Problem with Yum to upgrade Fedora 17.

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 15:34 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 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).

Replying to myself, I see that a fixed package is already built and is
pending the next push to the updates-testing repository.

Relevant BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814451

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