On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:56 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: > On at least 2 FC6 x86-64 boxes, I had issues with ext2libs where I had > to download all files and manually install. When I finally updated my > laptop, I had hundreds of MB of updates. > > One issue is that on x86_64, there are two copies so if you remove, > you must do rpm -e --all-matches.... > > I have had CONTINUAL issues with using yum to keep my boxes updated. > Every few weeks I get conflicts which have to be manually resolved, > often by simply removing a package and reinstalling it to get the > latest. > > On my FC6 x86_64 laptop, yum crashed twice and I had to remove the > __db* files and rebuild the RPM DB to get it to work. This is a 4-5 > year old problem with RPM (first seen with RH7 or RH8 and the newer > Berkley DB). > > All my boxes use FC6 (i386 or x86_64), extras, and a few packages from > http://freshrpms.net. It would be nice if they all played well > together. > > We could start a flame war contrasting MS Update versus YUM? Oh, GAWD, NO-O-O-O! Please don't! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
