Fedora 19 update error

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
> sudo yum update detects all necessary Fedora 19 updates but errors out with
> v8.
> I think v8 requires both i686 and x86_64 because it fails without the i686
> version.
>  yum whatprovides v8:
> 1:v8-3.14.5.10-1.fc19.i686 : JavaScript Engine
> Repo        : fedora
> 1:v8-3.14.5.10-1.fc19.x86_64 : JavaScript Engine
> Repo        : fedora
> 1:v8-3.17.6.14-2.fc19.x86_64 : JavaScript Engine
> Repo        : fedora-chromium-stable
> 1:v8-3.14.5.10-1.fc19.x86_64 : JavaScript Engine
> Repo        : installed
>
> yum list v8 reports:
> v8.x86_64                  1:3.14.5.10-1.fc19 installed
> Available Packages
> v8.i686                        1:3.14.5.10-1.fc19 fedora
> v8.x86_64                   1:3.17.6.14-2.fc19 fedora-chromium-stable
>
> I have been using sudo yum update --skip-broken --exclude v8.* to get
> remaining updates
>
> Is it safe to delete the fedora repo versions which seem earlier than the
> google-chromium version?
> Quite puzzled what to do here and would greatly appreciate some help please.

What error do you get when you try an update without --skip-broken and
--exclude?

It's impossible to figure out what's going on with the information given.  :-(

-T.C.