Yum update...only one at a time?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:32 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann <mailto:michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 23:45 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> >>> I'm doing yum update, but its only doing one package at a
> >>> time...any idea why? 
> >>> 
> >>> I've done a yum clean all and I'm using version 2.1.4
> >> 
> >> What do you mean one package at a time?
> > 
> > It seems to me that something went haywire with a dependency
> > resolution and not really in yum but somewhere in rpm libraries.
> > An attempt to use directly 'rpm -Fvh ...' with a bunch of packages
> > from the current updates ends up with:
> > 
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         linc >= 0.1.6 is needed by (installed) pyorbit-2.0.0-3.1
> >         linc = 1.0.3 is needed by (installed) linc-devel-1.0.3-6
> > 
> > while 'rpm -q linc' responds with 'linc-1.0.3-6' and
> > 'rpm -q linc-devel' with 'linc-devel-1.0.3-6'.  This appears to trip
> > yum. 
> > 
> > It seems that the real culprit is ORBit2, though, but why it
> > triggers this problem is far from clear to me.  Still, when other
> > packages are updated then ORBit2, and ORBit2-devel, can be updated as
> > well but only then. 
> > 
> > This is probably a bugzilla material but against what?
> > 
> >    Michal
> 
> So I guess we should wait it out?  But how can we upgrade when yum is
> trashed?
> 

try upgrading yum to yum 2.1.4 and see if it makes any difference at
all.
In this case I doubt it will. Also try rebooting your system to see if
there some sort of peculiar lock in the rpmdb causing this pain.

-sv