Re: how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Dom, 2015-07-26 at 09:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> This may or may not have anything to do with your problem but it's one
> I ran into with dnf...
> 
> 
> I was trying to update a package I KNEW was in updates-testing (I
> pushed it myself) but when I asked dnf to update it it gave me the
> "Nothing to do" message.
> 
> 
> After that I tried all the dnf clean metadata|all tricks and it still
> wouldn't find the updated package. Then I tried dnf
> --enablerepo=updates-testing list <package> and lo and behold it was
> there!
> 
> 
> Then I released that because it was a library, and another package was
> dependent on it, that it was refusing to update the package!
> 
> 
> While that's certainly the correct behavior, the lack of any sort of
> USEFUL message to the user is extremely confusing and frustrating.
> 
> 
You could use --best :

dnf update --refresh --best
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Nonfree - Test Updates                                                          45 kB/s | 9.4 kB     00:00    
Copr repo for gimp-saveforweb-plugin owned by region51                                                    2.2 kB/s | 2.3 kB     00:01    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free - Test Updates                                                             30 kB/s | 4.7 kB     00:00    
Copr repo for buildsforF21 owned by sergiomb                                                               18 kB/s |  15 kB     00:00    
google-talkplugin                                                                                          21 kB/s | 2.7 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free - Updates                                                                 633 kB/s | 406 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Nonfree - Updates                                                              215 kB/s | 148 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free                                                                           511 kB/s | 508 kB     00:00    
google-chrome                                                                                              29 kB/s | 3.7 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Nonfree                                                                        349 kB/s | 179 kB     00:00    
Copr repo for peazip owned by sergiomb                                                                    3.8 kB/s | 3.5 kB     00:00    
Using metadata from Sun Jul 26 15:25:14 2015 (0:00:22 hours old)
Error: nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 4.0.9-200.fc21.x86_64 needed by kmod-VirtualBox-4.0.9-200.fc21.x86_64-4.3.30-1.fc21.2.x86_64



> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> test mailing list
> test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To unsubscribe:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

-- 
test mailing list
test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test




[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Photo Sharing]     [Yosemite Forum]     [KDE Users]

  Powered by Linux