[mythtv-users] atrpms update breaks fedora 8 add/remove

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
> >> This sounds more like a bug in pirut than in atrpms. Perhaps it can't
> >> cope with too many packages or too many package dependencies?
> >>
> >> At any rate when pirut/kyum mess up one should always try to fall back
> >> to using plain yum to see whether the bug is in the GUI wrapper. Not
> >> that yum is infallible, but at least it narrows down the possibilities.

> > I had the same problem. In my case, it turned out to be the yum plugin
> > fastest mirror that was causing the problem...I removed it and all was
> > better.. Did you have that plugin installed?

That's a good hint. I'll try to enable this plugin to see if it
crashes on my as well.

> I am interested in this. When I run this w/F8:
> 
>   yum -y install \*myth\*
> 
> I run healthy for a while and then error out on too many dependencies. I
> have no idea what my yum plug in situation is, or how to diagnose and
> modify it.

That's a different story, and is called selective/partial updates. The
short story is "don't", the long one is that when you start cutting
off hjalf a repo away from a depsolver's eyes all interesting effects
may happen from installing the wrong packages (which is a silent bug)
to breaking out of the install procedure and mentioning missing
packages (like most probably in your case).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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