yum horror

[Robin Laing]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:23 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>When trying yum with ATrpms, I find that dependencies get not resolved and 
>>this makes yum almost unusable.
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>>Is there a fix ?
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>     Don't take this wrong, but yeah.
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>     rpm -ve --nodeps `rpm -vq | grep AT` (remove all "AT" rpms)
>     yum --disablerepo atrpms update  (update)
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>     There's been many an argument over what is, and is not needed to fix
> that repo, and I've been right where you are...which is why I just don't
> use it anymore.  Google the wars and rumors of wars...but don't bother.
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>     The "AT" there might be lower case, instead...you get the idea.
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I think that this is a scarry suggestion but it may be the only way to go.

Yesterday it was recommended to try smart package manager from 
http://smartpm.org.  RPM at DAG as a beta.  May be a bit nicer than 
the nodeps.

I have removed atrpms from my yum.conf file.

-- 
Robin Laing