[mythtv-users] atrpms update breaks fedora 8 add/remove

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Dec 31 17:42:00 UTC 2007


On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:33:50AM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, December 31, 2007 1:26 am, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
> >> >> This sounds more like a bug in pirut than in atrpms. Perhaps it can't
> >> >> cope with too many packages or too many package dependencies?
> >> >>
> >> >> At any rate when pirut/kyum mess up one should always try to fall
> >> back
> >> >> to using plain yum to see whether the bug is in the GUI wrapper. Not
> >> >> that yum is infallible, but at least it narrows down the
> >> possibilities.
> >
> >> > I had the same problem. In my case, it turned out to be the yum plugin
> >> > fastest mirror that was causing the problem...I removed it and all was
> >> > better.. Did you have that plugin installed?
> >
> > That's a good hint. I'll try to enable this plugin to see if it
> > crashes on my as well.
> >
> >> I am interested in this. When I run this w/F8:
> >>
> >>   yum -y install \*myth\*
> >>
> >> I run healthy for a while and then error out on too many dependencies. I
> >> have no idea what my yum plug in situation is, or how to diagnose and
> >> modify it.
> >
> > That's a different story, and is called selective/partial updates. The
> > short story is "don't", the long one is that when you start cutting
> > off hjalf a repo away from a depsolver's eyes all interesting effects
> > may happen from installing the wrong packages (which is a silent bug)
> > to breaking out of the install procedure and mentioning missing
> > packages (like most probably in your case).
> >
> 
> Axel,
> 
> Could you be kind enough to reply with the correct incantation to get myth
> (just a FE, really) to yum onto a F8 box? Crafted as if for a four-yr-old
> (which is what I feel like at these times)?

After having ATrpms configured (e.g. just install
atrpms-package-config or follow instructions at
atrpms.net/install.html):

yum install mythtv-frontend

> And while I have you, deepest thanks for keeping your marvelous yum
> repository up to date.

You're welcome!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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