On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Stuart Ellis wrote:
>> 8. A few words on what to do about yum errors would be very useful,
>> perhaps as a FAQ.
>
> Hmm. Could you give an example of a specific yum error ? I would think
> that the most common problems are likely to be general network errors.
I don't think so.
I think it is clear from postings to the general Fedora mailing list
that by far the most common problem is dependencies that cannot be
resolved.
These generally seem to be due to an injudicious choice of repositories.
You are the yum experts, but my advice in such a case would be that if
"yum update" is failing and there is just one problematic package one
should add "exclude=..." to yum.conf, at least temporarily.
[....]
I was slightly perturbed by your belief that most yum difficulties
arise
from network problems since this certainly is not the case from my
reading of postings on yum.
I'm just a thoroughly subtechnoid user, and I mean every syllable of my
.sig motto; so I can't speak to the actual issue. But I do have an example
you might could use.
When I first installed FC4 and had run yum update, I ran yum install
galeon, on the faint chance it might eventually work some day. (I gave up
galeon -- then my favorite browser -- years ago, when its dependency hell
with mozilla got too much for me. I've kept mozilla, which I detest, ever
since on the same faint hope.)
Much to my delight and amazement, it worked. Galeon runs -- on that one
machine.
A few days later, when I tried it again on other newer FC4 installs (on
older machines), I got dependency hell again. And still do. Such galeon
developers as have responded to my post on 7/23 to
gmane.comp.web.galeon.user (titled Dependency hell *again*) don't seem to
think there's anything they can and want to do.
As I said there, I have no idea whether this is a yum problem, a repo
problem, or something still different. (They seem to be saying it's not
a galeon problem.) But if it's not a galeon problem, it *looks* like one
of those two (if they're really different) to such uninformed users as
myself -- and likely gets called one on lists ...
Maybe someone here can at least tell why this trouble is chronic with
galeon/yum, and yet not with epiphany nor firefox. (I've never encountered
it with either, and have been using both for years.)
--
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Remember, I have precious little idea what I am talking about.