Re: Install/Upgrade diy...

"Morgan Read" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OK, can that question - seems pointing fedora.repo to
file:///media/Fedora%2010%20i386%20DVD/ is not a good idea.

Doing a yum install on the difference between what was installed and
is now installed by way of rpm is progressing well.  Thanks.

Regards,
M.

2009/1/7 Morgan Read <[email protected]>:
> Hi Folks
>
> My issue no doubt relates to my methodology...
>
> I've just moved from f8 to f10.  Figured that I'd take a list of all
> my installed RPMs and update to my that list once I'd installed f10 to
> return to my previous state - more or less.
>
> man yum says for yum update "... If no package matches the given
> package name(s), they are assumed to be a shell glob and any matches
> are then installed."  So, I've assumed that with that command what
> isn't installed from my list will be installed and what isn't up to
> date will be updated.  But, that command seems only to tell me:
> No Match for argument: a52dec
> Package(s) a52dec available, but not installed.
> etc
> etc
> And, not install anything...  See here: http://www.read.org.nz/YumUpdateFail.txt
>
> yum install seems more hopeful, with the same package being marked for
> an "update" (by "install"?):
> ...
> ---> Package a52dec.i386 0:0.7.4-13.fc10 set to be updated
> ...
> But, then failing for missing dependencies...  See here (after yum
> clean all & yum makecache): http://www.read.org.nz/YumInstallFail.txt
>
> So, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Morgan.
>
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