On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 10:12 +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > [I'll follow the archive, but please Cc: me] > > I've been trying to keep my Fedora Core devel installation automatically > up-to-date with a nightly "yum update" run from cron. This is proving > difficult. I'll list my issues (with a risk that some of them have been > dealt with previously on the mailing list - sorry): > > - Whenever yum detects it needs to update a .noarch package (such as > yum or hwbrowser), it tries to load it from s390x directory, not from > i386, eg. > > .../fedora/linux/core/development//s390x/Fedora/RPMS/hwbrowser-0.15-2.noarch.rpm > instead of > .../fedora/linux/core/development//i386/Fedora/RPMS/hwbrowser-0.15-2.noarch.rpm This has been covered on the fedora lists. don't use the top level repository for rawhide/development - append i386 to the baseurl you have specified. > - If one of the packages to be updated fails the dependencies (eg. > xmms-1.2.10 can't be upgraded since xmms-mp3 needs xmms-1.2.9 which > is not available), the whole "yum update" fails. It would be nice if all > the other packages would still be upgraded even if xmms needs to be > left unupdated. I realize this must have crossed yum developers' mind > and it's probably hard to do (judging from the time it takes to calculate > the dependencies as is), but I can't help bringing it up. please read through the mailing list archives about this first. > it would be nice to see something like > > [update: gnome-desktop 2.5.90-1.i38 ==> 2.5.91-1.i386] > [update: libgnomeprint15 1:0.37-8.1.i386 ==> 1:0.37-8.2.i386] > Is this ok [y/N]: It's not something that, in the past, we've had the information available to do. It's something I've put some time into making sure is available for future major versions. -sv
