yum: doing its part to keep the editor grumpy

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> So...I'm trying to get my system up to current rawhide so that I'm in a
> proper position to whine about printing being broken...again...  In the
> process, though, I've discovered a new bit of fun behavior:
>
> # yum update
> < ... package information as usual ...>
> Transaction Summary
> =======================================================================================
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update      13 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
>
> Total size: 2.1 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> ================================== Entering rpm code ==================================
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
>
>
>
> #
>
> In other words, it just silently fails.  If I go into the package cache
> and install packages by hand, I eventually run into something like this:
>

1. This is a known bug
2. The utf8 conversion is FAILING to convert the rpm output :(
3. you're running out of disk space - probably on / or /boot.

> # rpm -ivh lame-libs-3.98.2-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> 	file /usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 from install of lame-libs-3.98.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libmp3lame0-3.97-16.fc8_93.x86_64
>
> So my *real* problem is that the switch to rpmfusion isn't playing well
> with older packages from other repositories of ill repute.  Outside
> repositories and rawhide have always been a fun combination, but I
> can't really blame anybody but myself for attempting to do that.  I know
> how to clean up this kind of mess.
>
> But it *would* be nice if yum would *tell* me why things are failing...

It'd be even nicer if python unicode handling didn't murder kittens. :)

We're working on this one.
Thanks,

-sv