On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:03:20 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote: [...] > What do you get if you run > > rpm --query --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)' > > and > > repoquery --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)' > > ? The first tells me an rpm for gtk-sharp; the second just gives my root prompt back. > > In case you don't have repoquery yet, you can find it in the "yum-utils" > package. I tried "yum install yum-utils" -- it says I have it, and it's the latest. > There has been a gtk-shark2 update recently, and it certainly provides > these four things which are complained about. > > "sysinfo" is not found in the Fedora package collection, however. I > wonder whether that might be of importance. If you "rpm -e sysinfo" it > and then try yum update again, any change? > >> Complete! >> (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report']) >> >> I haven't the faintest idea what that means; so I google the >> error line. >> >> It sends me to a wad of sites on Fedora-forum (which I never have >> been able to use; but I see there are discussions back at least to >> 2007). >> >> So I go to that yum site, and it wants me to register; I try. >> >> Three different browsers tell me its certificate is no good, >> and >> urge me strongly not to go there. > > Still you could choose to go there (and add an exception for the > certificate). ;) I tried it, and the warnings got stronger; one (Galeon or Epiphany) assured me that no honest X,Y, or Z (which seemed to cover 99 44/100% of the waterfront among them) would ever ask me to do that. That's when I quit and asked here instead. *Can* someone vouch for yum.baseurl.org -- including that nobody could be spoofing it?? I'd've done it if it'd been a site I know; but it isn't. [....] >> Transaction Summary >> ================================================================================ >> Install 0 Package(s) >> Update 0 Package(s) >> Remove 18 Package(s) >> >> Some of that looks very serious; I don't want to futz with >> things >> named sysinfo nor gnome-desktop-*. (I might, but I once did try some >> such thing, long ago, and it removed yum! I had one devil of a time >> with that ...) Now, after Ron Siven's assurance here, I have removed "sysinfo" -- and everything seems fine. Some sort of orphan from an old install, maybe .... > If it prints a list of what packages it will remove, it won't silently > remove itself. Yes; many a time have I taken advantage of that. > What makes "yum remove ..." dangerous is that other dependency chains > are much longer and would lead to removing many more packages. Paying > close attention to the printed list and the y/n safety check is very > important. Yes!! Many many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
