Problem with today's "yum update"

[Robert L Cochran]

How do I deal with this error as a result of running 

'yum -y --obsoletes update':

Transaction Check Error: package katana-1.0.4-4 is already installed

Thanks

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA


On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Klinke wrote:
> I'm guessing others will run into this with this morning's updates.
> 
> "yum update" errored out and quit with the display below.  
> 
> ============ yum error =============
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 139, in ?
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 130,
> in buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 157,
> in resolveDeps
>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = 
> self._processConflict(dep)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 351,
> in _processConflict
>     msg = '%s conflicts: %s' % (name,
> rpmUtils.miscutils.formatRequire(needname, needversion, flags))
> NameError: global name 'name' is not defined
> 
> =====================================
> 
> I filed a bug which was quickly marked as closed due to the problem 
> having been fixed in the version of yum that "yum update" was going 
> to download and install this morning.  I manually downloaded the 
> new yum rpm and installed it.  After running the new yum I then 
> received the error: 
> 
> #yum update
> .........
> Resolving Dependencies
> Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts:  xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 
> 6.7.99.903-3
> 
> and after excluding "xorg-x11" the "yum update" then completed. I 
> presume that simply excluding "xorg-x11" would have allowed the yum 
> update with yesterday's version to complete.  Hope this helps 
> someone else and I'm off to file a bug against "xorg-x11" if it 
> hasn't already been done.
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
> 
>