[mythtv-users] Ongoing Fedora YUM Dependency Problems

[jack snodgrass]

On 9/28/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/09/06, Tom Greer <trgreer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This email is simply a rant...  but I need to express my frustration, so I'm
> > begging forgiveness in advance.
> >
> > I've been using MythTV for over a year now.  I originally tried to make it
> > work with SuSE (wasted lots of time there), until I found Jarod Wilson's
> > wonderful HOW-TO for installing Myth on Fedora Core 4.  (Thank you, Jarod!)
> > I switched to Fedora and got MythTV installed and working on 2 machines.
> >
> > But over the year, I continually experienced problems when updating or
> > upgrading via yum.  Over and over again, yum refused to do anything because
> > of dependency problems.  Each time, I had to invest time and effort to work
> > around the problem.
> >
> > When I was confronted with the problem again this week, I decided to upgrade
> > to Fedora Core 5.  So I downloaded the DVD ISO, verified the DVD was good
> > and upgraded the master backend.  After the upgrade, the system couldn't
> > launch the X server.  So I tried to run "yum upgrade".  It refused due to a
> > conflict over the boot image.
> >
> > So I copied all my recordings to another box and dumped a backup of
> > mythconverg - and did a clean install of  Fedora Core 5.  Immediately after
> > first boot, I tried "yum upgrade".  Same problem.
> >
> > I'm giving up on Fedora.  Hello Ubuntu...
>
> Did you try using smart? yum dep issues have been around for a while
> now and smart seems much better at resolving them:
>
> http://atrpms.net/install.html
>
>
> Nick
>

I like Fedora. I've got it on 30+ systems.

The only times I've had issues is when I use 3rd party
repositories like freshrpms, livna, atrpms, etc and
they don't work together all of the time.

I did have an issue with FC5 and the kernel but that was
when there was some old FC4 modules that were conflicting.
I did rpm -e file.rpm and then did the yum upgrade.

jack