Found the problem! gnome-mime-data of RH 8.0 is a noarch package, while the one from RH 9 is arch i386. clientStuff.py is filtering the update package out in genupdatedhdrlist, since exactarch is set in yum.conf. So... to upgrade from RH8.0 to RH9 you *MUST* set the following in yum.conf: exactarch=0 Maybe yum should allow a transition from noarch to a defined arch even when exactarch is set?! > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Vogel > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:38 > To: 'yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: package gnome-vfs2 needs gnome-mime-data >= 2.0.0-11 > > > >On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:34, Tom Hines wrote: > >> Hi. I've finally gotten around to installing yum and > >> trying to update from 8.0 to 9. I've read that I just > >> have to point yum to the rhl 9 repositories and it > >> should work, but it failed with a dependency not > >> provided. Here is the output: > >> > >> > >> .package gnome-vfs2 needs gnome-mime-data >= 2.0.0-11 > >> (not provided) > > > >good possibility that this is a genuinely broken dependency > w/no way out > >of it except removing it. > > > >try removing gnome-vfs2. > > > >I've done a bunch of rhl 8.0 -> 9 upgrades and they worked > pretty well. > > > >-sv > > I seem to be bumping into the same problem when trying to upgrade from > RH 8.0 to RH 9. From what I can see, yum doesn't detect/download the > gnome-mime-data package/header of rhl-9-stock. > > ie. doing: yum list gnome-mime-data > > Only shows the installed gnome-mime-data of RH 8.0 but not the one > from the rhl-9-stock repository. > > I also checked the /var/cache/yum/rhl-9-stock/headers directory, and > yum hadn't downloaded the gnome-mime-data header > > > > === more details: > > # yum list gnome-mime-data > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 stock @ dulug > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates/errata @ dulug > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Looking in Available Packages: > Name Arch Version > Repo > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > > Looking in Installed Packages: > Name Arch Version > Repo > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > gnome-mime-data noarch 2.0.0-9 db > > # cat /etc/yum.conf > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > > [rhl-9-stock] > name = Red Hat Linux 9 stock @ dulug > baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/ > > [rhl-9-updates] > name = Red Hat Linux 9 updates/errata @ dulug > baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat > /updates/9/ > > # grep gnome-mime-data /var/cache/yum/rhl-9-stock/header.info > 0:gnome-mime-data-2.2.0-1.i386=RedHat/RPMS/gnome-mime-data-2.2 > .0-1.i386.rpm > > # ls -l > /var/cache/yum/rhl-9-stock/headers/gnome-mime-data-0-2.2.0-1.i386.hdr > ls: > /var/cache/yum/rhl-9-stock/headers/gnome-mime-data-0-2.2.0-1.i > 386.hdr: No such file or directory > > > Tried to download it myself: > > # cd /var/cache/yum/rhl-9-stock/headers > # wget http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/gnome- mime-data-0-2.2.0-1.i386.hdr but it didn't make any difference. yum list gnome-mime-data still didn't show it. # rpm -q yum rpm python rpm-python redhat-release yum-2.0.4-1 rpm-4.1.1-1.8x python-2.2.1-17 rpm-python-4.1.1-1.8x redhat-release-8.0-8 # rpm -Va --nomd5 --nofiles Gave no output.. so everything is ok.
