On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 10:22 -0700, stan wrote: […] > > I recently saw this with a package in F28. This shouldn't happen, as > far as I know, because the later package is replacing the earlier > package and dnf should know that. My take is that some change to the > package gives the later version a different signature, so that dnf > actually thinks they are different packages, but that is just a > guess. > I resolved the issue by running, for your case, > dnf -x zsh -x zvbi -x zziplib upgrade > After that completed, I did > dnf remove zsh zvbi zziplib > dnf install zsh zvbi zziplib > In my case, the package was a leaf package, so this was trivial. If > your packages have a lot of dependencies, all those will be taken out > by the remove, and will have to be installed along with zsh, zvbi, > and > zziplib. Some of them might not be available for the new version. I tried "dnf remove --duplicates" but that downloaded 2.3GB and then failed to do anything due to dependency failures. Pragmatically I am not sure can try your suggestion as actually there are 2242 problem packages not just three. :-( -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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