RE: Yum update...only one at a time?

["Mike Loiterman" <mike ascendency net>]

Mike Loiterman <mailto:mike ascendency net> wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann <mailto:michal 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. 
>> 

So what is the exact command sequence you used to update?

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