> i have no idea from where came dbus-qt, which raises a number > of questions: > > 1) is this an oversight on the part of the repository? or did > someone manually add the dbus-qt RPM to this local system > which is messing up the yum update? dbus-qt was removed from 0.95 w/o being obsoleted. yum remove dbus-qt yum update. > > 2) can i assume that, if any kind of update problem is detected, > nothing will be done to the local system and the entire > update will be abandoned? yes. an update must entirely complete the depcheck > > 3) does yum have some sort of "--test" or "--dry-run" option? > the man page makes no mention of such a feature. it does not. -sv
