On 12/01/2016 12:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:15 -0800, Howard Howell wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx, Development discussions related to Fedora <de
>> vel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade
>> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:11:29 -0800
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:05 -0800, Howard Howell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Since the dnf erase command doesn't work, or tries to remove over
>>> 211M
>>> of files, do you mean just to remove the directory tree for the
>>> offending package using the rm command?
>>
>> Sorry, I missed that part. I use 'dnf remove', but I don't know if
>> there's any difference between that and 'dnf erase'. But when you say
>> '211M of files', that could just be Google Earth itself; it's a pretty
>> big app. What exactly is the output from 'dnf remove google-earth'?
>>
>> Dependencies resolved.
>> =======================================================================
>> =========
>> Package Arch Version Repository
>> Size
>> =======================================================================
>> =========
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>> =======================================================================
>> =========
>> Remove 61 Packages
>
> Wow, yeah. There is something weird going on there. It looks a lot like
> the google-earth stuff is providing some kind of core stuff which
> should usually come from a Fedora package, so that package isn't
> installed. But I dunno how you got in that state in the *first* place.
> What does `rpm -q --provides google-earth` show?
>
Perhaps dnf thinks google-earth is now the authority on %{_bindir} ?
So removing it is tearing the rug out from under all those others?
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