Need a working 7.3 yum repository

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 19 15:17:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:08 -0500, Christian Call wrote:
> I documented the fedoralecacy failure in a Bugzilla report (#2236) I wrote on  Wednesday.
>  
> Unfortunately, Bugzilla has been down.  But the problem description is below.
>  
> I don't see how the signature problem could be from failure to install the GPG keys.
> I installed the keys as instructed on the fedoralegacy web page you refer to.
> This error occurred after I had already downloaded *lots* of packages from Duke,
> without any signature-failure errors.
> Did I miss some keys?  Are there different keys used by some of the Duke stuff
> that I need to install?


The files at duke are just a stock red hat mirror. There are no "duke
files".


> === Begin
>  After a fresh installation of Red Hat Linux 7.3 on an Intel P4 platform, I
> installed yum from download.fedoralegacy.org and tried to do a "yum update".  I
> received the messages:
> 
> .... identical dependency loop exceeded.
> package mozilla-psm needs mozilla-nss = 1.0.2-2.7.3 (not provided)
> package mozilla-psm needs mozilla-nss = 1.0.2-2.7.3 (not provided)
> 
> I have been doing a fair number of Red Hat 7.3 installations over the past
> several weeks, and the yum updates used to work.  As I recall, they stopped
> working (and started displaying the above problem) somewhere around November 5.
> 
> Here is what uname -v -r reports for my system:
> 
> 2.4.18-3smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 18 (etc.)
> 
> I would appreciate any help with this problem. 


try running yum upgrade instead of yum update and see if the mozilla
issue goes away.

I bet it will.

-sv





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