On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:54, Satish Balay wrote:
> > I used up2date yesterday and it had to update about 20
packages.
> > During it installation of kernel-source up2date died because it could
> > not install the package. The problem now is, that all packages that
> > where to be installed after kernel-source are de-installed!
> [...snip...]
> > I've entered a bug in bugzilla. ID is 108691
>
> This looks closely related to my bug #108652, rather than the one it was
> marked as duplicating in bugzilla. I added a comment in the hopes that
> someone will see that this (and many of the other up2date problems that
> keep reappearing on the list) could be taken care of by simply adding an
> extra modicum of sanity checking during the process.
Looks like all these issues are due to the mirrors (including
ftp.redhat.com) not having a consistant yum repository (i.e
headers/header.info not in sysc with the *.rpm files available on the
mirror .)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107972
The correct fix - I think, is to change the process with which
ftp.redhat.com is updated.
While I completely agree that the proximate cause is on the server side,
this doesn't help the casual user who suddenly ends up with a broken
box, where packages are suddenly missing and the dependency tree is now
broken. Fixing the client to use a little bit of common sense to avoid
disaster is also a good idea, especially since it involves a minimum of
fuss.
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE