atrpms, gcc, libtool and what did i do wrong?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:49:35PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >
> > > Hm, I did the above the minute I wrote the mail. This is fc4-i386, you
> > > are pointing smart to a repo that has the updated gcc (like
> > > dl.atrpms.net), and have not forgotten the smart update, right?
> > >
> > > What does smart query gcc return (see below for my output)? You could
> > > also try smart upgrade gcc.
> > >
> > > Loading cache...
> > > Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
> > >
> > > gcc-4.0.0-8 at i386
> > > gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4 at i386
> > >
> > > Saving cache...
> >
> >
> > my results (keeping in mind that i'm new to using "smart"):
> >
> > # smart query gcc
> > Loading cache...
> > Updating cache...
> > ######################################## [100%]
> >
> > gcc-4.0.0-8 at i386
> > gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4 at i386
> >
> >
> > # smart upgrade
> > Loading cache...
> > Updating cache...
> > ######################################## [100%]
> >
> > Computing transaction...
> > No interesting upgrades available.
> > # smart upgrade gcc
> > Loading cache...
> > Updating cache...
> > ######################################## [100%]
> >
> > Computing transaction...
> > No interesting upgrades available.
> > #
> >
> >   ok, i'm open to suggestions.
>
> This really looks awkward. rpm -q gcc verifies that you are still on
> gcc 4.0.0?

yup, that's the first thing i checked.

# rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.0.0-8

at this point, any yum command i run prints:

Setting up repositories

and just hangs.  i'm not liking the look of this, and i just went in
and disabled a pile of repositories to see if i can isolate the
problem.

rday