F11 updates failing

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> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:14, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 January 2010 19:56:33 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> >> On Saturday 02 January 2010 20:43:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > On Saturday 02 January 2010 17:56:25 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> >> > > As someone suggested, it could be an issue with the mirrors. Try...
> >> > > in the Fedora and Fedora Updates repo to comment out the mirror urls
> >> > > and un-comment the base urls. Change the base urls from
> >> > >  download.fedoraproject.org to download.redhat.fedora.com. yum clean
> >> > > all. yum update.
> >> > >
> >> > > I made a complaint a couple of years ago about this kind of syncing
> >> > > issue, but they told me that they really do not know what to do
> >> > > about it.
> >> >
> >> > Hi, Eli.  Yes I have already tried the base urls.
> >> >
> >> > Anne
> >>
> >> Ooops Firstly I made a typo. Probable dyslexia in action. :)
> >>
> >> I meant to type download.fedora.redhat.com  not
> >
> > download.redhat.fedora.com.
> >
> >> Make sure that the base urls read what I've indicated. The fedora and
> >>  fedora updates repo files usually come with download.fedoraproject.org.
> >>  Believe it or not, that base url can also be out of sync for quite
> >>  sometime.  What you could also try is to download the files manually
> >> and then rpm -Uvh them to get them installed.
> >>
> >> Eli
> >
> > Ane I hadn't read your message carefully enough anyway - sorry about
> > that. Sadly, it didn't cure the problem, though.  You'll see from my
> > reply to Rex that I have uploaded the full output to
> > http://filebin.ca/pqyess/yus.txt
> 
> First problem i can see in there is the failure to update
> kdebase-workspace-python-applet. This is because kdebindings last i
> checked wasn't building for F11 which means it can't be updated. I
> found removing kdebase-workspace-python-applet before updating allowed
> the update although obviously python based plasma applets will stop
> working... My guess without looking too closely is that since that
> package can't be updated other packages that depend on it and it
> depends on can't be updated either causing a huge list of errors.
> 

You can also try running:

"yum --exclude=<trouble maker1> [--exclude=<trouble maker2>] --skip-broken 
update"

Where <trouble-maker> is e.g. 'kdebase-workspace-python-applet'

Martin Kho



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