On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Stuart Ellis wrote: > >>> 8. A few words on what to do about yum errors would be very useful, >>> perhaps as a FAQ. >> >> Hmm. Could you give an example of a specific yum error ? I would think >> that the most common problems are likely to be general network errors. > > I don't think so. > I think it is clear from postings to the general Fedora mailing list > that by far the most common problem is dependencies that cannot be > resolved. > > These generally seem to be due to an injudicious choice of repositories. > > You are the yum experts, but my advice in such a case would be that if > "yum update" is failing and there is just one problematic package one > should add "exclude=..." to yum.conf, at least temporarily. [....] > I was slightly perturbed by your belief that most yum difficulties arise > from network problems since this certainly is not the case from my > reading of postings on yum. I'm just a thoroughly subtechnoid user, and I mean every syllable of my .sig motto; so I can't speak to the actual issue. But I do have an example you might could use. When I first installed FC4 and had run yum update, I ran yum install galeon, on the faint chance it might eventually work some day. (I gave up galeon -- then my favorite browser -- years ago, when its dependency hell with mozilla got too much for me. I've kept mozilla, which I detest, ever since on the same faint hope.) Much to my delight and amazement, it worked. Galeon runs -- on that one machine. A few days later, when I tried it again on other newer FC4 installs (on older machines), I got dependency hell again. And still do. Such galeon developers as have responded to my post on 7/23 to gmane.comp.web.galeon.user (titled Dependency hell *again*) don't seem to think there's anything they can and want to do. As I said there, I have no idea whether this is a yum problem, a repo problem, or something still different. (They seem to be saying it's not a galeon problem.) But if it's not a galeon problem, it *looks* like one of those two (if they're really different) to such uninformed users as myself -- and likely gets called one on lists ... Maybe someone here can at least tell why this trouble is chronic with galeon/yum, and yet not with epiphany nor firefox. (I've never encountered it with either, and have been using both for years.) -- Beartooth Senectoflatuloid, Neo-Redneck, Linux Convert Remember, I have precious little idea what I am talking about. -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
