On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 12:50 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Pirut or yum wont remove packages on its own. If you try and remove > > any > > > packages through Pirut or yum, it lists the dependencies and you > > will > > > have to confirm before any package gets removed from the system. I > > am > > > curious to know why you find it unusable in this instance. > > > > > > Rahul > > > > The above is simply not true. The package was removed without my > > confirming the removal. > > Unless unclicking a line of additional software in pirut means you > > want > > it removed which is just plain crazy. Again I will start again and we > > will see what happens. > > Let me add the the above. It has been suggested that my yum did not work > because I upgraded rather than installed. I am re-installing to settle > this but I remember clearly that I formatted th drives during the > previous install so it could not have been an upgrade. The fc5 Rpms that > showed up must have been introduced by yum, pirut or the system upgrade > messages I keep getting. > > My contention is still that one of these programs is screwing this up > but we will see. If no one else finds this happening to them I will have > to concede that I am wrong. We will see. ---- dries/rpmforge actually hard coded fc5 into their previous rpmforge-release rpm instead of using '$releasever' which is probably why you would have some fc5 packages (if the repo was installed as I seem to recall you saying it was). No one else is having these issue. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
