[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - ATrpms and yum

vamythguy vamythguy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 18:32:01 UTC 2007


On 11/1/07, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2007 11:35 AM, vamythguy <vamythguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've seen others reporting the same issue, but their resolutions don't
> seem
> > to work for me.  "yum --skip-broken upgrade" is still not working:
>
> I had the same problem (yum bombs out with same error in spite of
> "--skip-broken"). I had another system with the latest kernel (since
> it doesn't have ivtv installed, it had no problem with the download),
> so I manually installed that kernel.
>
> After rebooting to the new kernel, the /dev/video* nodes were still
> being created by udev, which means the new kernels come with working
> ivtv modules.  I then tried Mythtv, and it worked fine (Live TV) with
> my PVR-500 (subsequent recording also worked). Right now I'm running
> on kernel-PAE-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.i686 (I went a little buy-crazy when
> Crucial had 1 gig DDR2s for $40 each, so my backend has 4 gigs of
> RAM), and all of last night's shows (including the delightful "Pushing
> Daisies") recorded without a hitch.
>
> Anyway, I did "rpm --nodeps -e" to remove the older kernels and the
> ivtv-kmdl packages.
>
> My final step was to remove the "ivtv" package today, then restart
> mythbackend. It's still working fine, so it seems obvious it doesn't
> depend on the "ivtv" package for its functionality.
>
> So my recommendatiion is to remove the ivtv and ivtv-kmdl packages
> ("rpm -e --repackage yourpackagenameshere"), then run "yum -y update".
>
> (Repackage creates rpms from the existing files - handy if you realize
> too late you've deleted a package which you don't have the rpm file
> for)
>
> It worked for me, so I suspect it will work for you.
>
> Calvin
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I'm probably just too dense, but I tried removing the ivtv packages and then
rerunning yum to no avail.  I still get the dependency issue.  Arg.
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