Rawhide xdvik obsoleted by F8 tetex-xdvi
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Tue Feb 5 20:13:37 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:44 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> It looks like xdvik-22.84.13-15.fc9 has this problem fixed, it now provides
> tetex-xdvi = 3.0-99 which should be newer than the fc8 update.
Unfortunately, pup reports:
tetex-xdvi - 3.0-44.3.fc8.x86_64 obsoletes xdvik -
22.84.13-17.fc9.x86_64
>
> Try installing the newer xdvik from rawhide:
> yum --enable-repo=development update xdvik
>
> > tetex-xdvi x86_64 3.0-44.3.fc8 updates
>
> If the new package doesn't fix it, one option would be to just use
> --exclude=tetex-xdvi for awhile, even making a yum alias if you want to:
> alias yum="yum --exclude=tetex-xdvi"
>
> in your .bashrc will do the trick (don't forget this is there...)
Unfortunately, I don't think this will stop yum-updatesd from thinking
there's an update. The pup icon is still in my notification tray.
>
> > 906 k
> > replacing xdvik.x86_64 22.84.13-10.fc9
>
> Did you try using yum-versionlock and adding xdvik to your
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list?
> It should have prevented anything from changing xdvik, which updating to
> tetex-xdvi would do.
>
> I think the new package should fix this however.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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