Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

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On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 10:18 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > What exactly would you have had me do? Just sit on this and pretend
> > there was no bug and when we saw more and more people come into #fedora
> > and complain about it, tell them the risk was minimal so they should
> > just suck it up and get on with their lives? I mean, seriously, what do
> > you suggest?
> 
> 
> Tell people the actual workaround?
> 
> rpm -Uvh --nodeps --nopostun \
>   http://$MIRROR/updates/testing/25/x86_64/s/systemd-udev-231-8.fc25.x86_64.rpm
> 
> --nopostun will disable the broken scriptlet.
> --nodeps will avoid the hard EVR requirement on the rest of systemd.
> Then a normal dnf update should fix your deps.

Huh - that's handy, and I did not actually know --nopostun (something
new every day, etc.). It does involve including instructions on how to
find the package, though, which would inevitably go stale as it moves
from u-t to stable. Still, thanks.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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