error running yum for the first time

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Sep 6 05:29:46 UTC 2006


On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 17:26 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:59 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>>> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>>> The fix is to either 'rpm -e yum-versionlock' if you don't use it or to
>>>>> provide the missing config file.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing he performed an "everything" install, whatever that means
>>>> these days.  So it sounds like there should be a config provided with
>>>> it.  Making the default system unusable is plain silly, especially since
>>>> it would also mess with the applet.
>>>
>>> you're thinking like a user and not like a sysadmin.
>>
>> Then there is clearly a problem in yum or anaconda or maybe even rpm for
>> not determining whether the person installing the package is a user or a
>> sysadmin.
>>
>>
>>> If that file went missing it would screw up a lot of systems that are
>>> locked in.
>>
>> I don't doubt that.  Perhaps this specific plugin should be disabled by
>> default then even after install.  e.g. enabled = 0 in versionlock.conf
>> instead of enabled = 1.  And just require the user^H^H^H^H sysadmin
>> explicitly turning it on (they already have to do work to make the
>> plugin useful, what's one more step?)
>
> doesn't bother me if that's the case.
> Panu?

No problem with that - in fact now that these things are packaged that's 
the way it *should* be. IIRC the original reason for it being enabled=1 by 
default is that it was something people would be manually digging out of 
yum-utils docdir instead of being just yum install away.

>>> Fedora is not just for end users in front of laptops.
>>
>> That doesn't mean we can screw the end user for the benefit of the
>> sysadmin, or vice versa.
>
> I think discouraging 'everything' installs by aversion therapy might be
> a good idea, though. :)

Heh. Anyway, changed the default behavior in cvs now, with some regrets 
due to making life easier for people doing everything-installs :)

 	- Panu -




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