yum and broken deps

[Tim Lauridsen]

oldman wrote:
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> Jim Cornette wrote:
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>> Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>> oldman wrote:
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>> Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>>>>> Jerry Williams wrote:
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>>>>>>> I installed it, but I still have issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yum -y --skip-broken update
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I have the plugin installed and ran the update. It did not run through
>>>>>> the routine and install what it could for me either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think I ran yum --skip-broken -y update though. Would the order
>>>>>> matter
>>>>>> since it is prefixed with the -- before the option?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim
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>> It shouldn't matter which comes first. It seems to me that the plugin is
>> easily confused though.  It's my recollection that the error messages
>> left by the plugin make it much easier to build the --exclude line as it
>> has always been that some program already installed will break due to
>> the program waiting to be installed that throws the error. OTOH a
>> program that can't meet its dependencies will be skipped properly.  It
>> might be that the plugin is not acting properly though - I may do some
>> looking for docs & maybe file a BZ unless someone does it first.
>>
>> Scott
>>     
>>> I was thinking that the -- followed by the parameter would not matter
>>> for order.
>>>
>>> I didn't have any luck with the plugin and resorted to the script that
>>> Dave posted a long while back to update the system. The strange thing
>>> is that after letting the script update the remaining packages,
>>> (Mostly gnome)the remaining packages were ALL installed. Running yum
>>> with or without the --skip-broken parameter would fail to complete
>>> successfully.
>>>
>>> All rpms are installed from development now.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
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>> I think the problem with yum and the skip-broken resides because of
>> these dep errors put out by package-cleanup. Why the packages all
>> installed with a one by one script is confusing to me though.
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>>  package-cleanup --problems
>> Setting up yum
>> Reading local RPM database
>> Processing all local requires
>> Missing dependencies:
>> Package gnome-applets requires libgucharmap.so.5
>> Package frysk requires libgcj.so.7rh
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>> locate libgucharmap.so
>> /usr/lib/libgucharmap.so.6
>> /usr/lib/libgucharmap.so.6.0.1
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>> locate libgcj.so
>> /usr/lib/libgcj.so.8rh
>> /usr/lib/libgcj.so.8rh.0.0
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>> Jim
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> Maybe you just got lucky, as I am currently upgrading gucharmap and
> libgcj (and the new versions of frysk and gnome-applets too!)and I used
> the yum --skip-broken.
> The yum plugin seems to work quite a bit faster for me, but I'm still
> not convinced it's properly excluding some packages that it should and
> at least 2 packages it has seriously broken yum to the point that yum
> threw a python exception.
>
> Scott
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I have just checked in a smarter edition of the skip-broken plugin in 
yum-utils upstream CVS.
The output from the plugin is now much better.

I you want to test it you can grab it here.
http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum-utils/plugins/skip-broken/

Just copy the .py file to /usr/lib/yum-plugins and the .conf to 
/etc/yum/plugin.conf.d


Tim
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