Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[Jim Cornette]

seth vidal wrote:
>>I think that yum should have a provision that upgrades the packages that 
>>the dependencies were all satisfied and then list the unresolved 
>>dependencies after the programs that have no problems are installed.
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> but you may have to back down those, of course.
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>>Also, it would be great for yum (and up2date) to be able to skip 
>>programs that for some reason give 550 errors on rawhide (noarch, in my 
>>case, non-rawhide noarch programs do not give me this error)
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> what is a 550 error?

With up2date it seems to give me this output.

  up2date man-pages-de

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: development...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: troubled-rpms...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
man-pages-de                            0.4            6 
    noarc h


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such 
file or di rectory
########################################
man-pages-de-0.4-6.noarch.r There was some sort of I/O error: [Errno ftp 
error] 550 Failed to change directory.


I just tried yum and it is going through the updating headers process. 
It gives a similar error, then dies. (it did bomb out awhile ago, all 
better now, see below:)

I checked the mirror that I use with gftp and mc and the files are not 
symlinks. There shouldn't be a need to change directories. I have to 
download any noarch rpm and it will install when located in a local 
directory.

yum finally finished and did complete the transaction. Here is the output.

I will do the following:
[install: man-pages-de 0.4-6.noarch]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Getting man-pages-de-0.4-6.noarch.rpm
man-pages-de-0.4-6.noarch 100% |=========================| 893 kB    00:02
Running test transaction:
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such 
file or directory
Test transaction complete, Success!
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such 
file or directory
man-pages-de 100 % done 1/1
Installed:  man-pages-de 0.4-6.noarch
Transaction(s) Complete


What was changed in yum? Or did this error 550 just disappear magically? 
If there was a change to yum that corrected this shortcoming, up2date 
needs some of the same magic.


Jim




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