cannot update to latest, how should I proceed to apply updates

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:

> David G. Mackay wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:57 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > How should I proceed to apply the updates?
> > > Did anybody else also encounter the above problems?
> >
> > I got the same errors.  I just went ahead and ran rpm -Uvh --force hal*
> > smbios-utils* libsmbios* against the rpms
> > in /var/cache/yum/development/packages.  It seems to have survived it so
> > far.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Yep, you'll just have two packages that overlap now, with libsmbios-bin no
> longer present in the repo (I don't know if thats temporary, or intentional,
> but its not there).

so, is the above considered the proper (albeit temporary) solution to
this current package problem?  as, not surprisingly, i'm in the same
situation.

rday
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