[mythtv-users] Re: Poll: apt-get FC3 install

Dan wolf mboverload at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 23:49:33 UTC 2004


So is there a fix for us MythTV users?  I'm waiting to go any further
until this problem is fixed because it seems pretty complicated to fix
it.


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:06:31 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:18:14PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, David Highley wrote:
> > > "Hugo van der Kooij wrote:"
> > > > > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:10 +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > > > > > The yum package published has 2 issues.
> > > > > >  1. It contains a weird Requires: line which breaks dependencies.
> > > > > >  2. It requires python 2.4 that is not part of the stable tree (yet) so
> > > > > > this dependency can not be resolved.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that the yum package from atrpms or from Fedora that has these
> > > > > problems?
> > > >
> > > > atrpms. bug 350 if I am not mistaken.
> > >
> > > So is the bug against the RedHat Fedora version or the atrpms apt. If
> > > you are using yum will you be effected as I see tons of dependency
> > > issues when I search the atrpms repositories.
> >
> > For those that need glasses or hearing aids I will repeat myself again:
> > atrpms
> >
> > I think it has been named by others as well several times. You can even
> > see the problem on:
> > http://download.atrpms.net/production/sources/fedora-3-i386/atrpms/yum.spec
> 
> The issues David Highley mentions (many broken dependencies) are not
> due to the double Requires: typo. They are genouine yum bugs :/
> 
> The yum package at ATrpms was supposed to provide a newer yum fixing
> some of these bugs, but got bugged itself with the problems Hugo
> mentions.
> 
> So there is a conspiracy against yum users. Seriously yum is quite
> messy these days, so unless you have a multilib system better go for
> apt.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
> 
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