Re: yum critical: <XYZ> was supposed to be installed but is not

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:
>>
>>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I dont get the rpm db error with the single kernel-soure rpm.
>>> (I suspect the db error only appers with this "strange" rpm
>>> and "enough" (lets say > 1024) update rpms too)
>>>
>>> Currently I update only the single rpm, I'm currently
>>> bisecting the kernel-source.spec file. :)
>>>
>>> But the funny thing is that the update works without errors
>>> when it comes from the local filesystem, if it comes from http
>>> the error is back.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>> what do you mean "comes from http"?
>
> The update is started with:
>
> - "yum update" vs.
> - "yum update /path/to/kernel-source.rpm"
>
>> all pkgs are downloaded before yum
>> runs against them and the pkgs are verified vs their checksums and gpg
>> signatures. So an operation from a local disk and an operation from a
>> repo on an http server should be the same.
>>
>
> Currently I'm doing some tests with the spec file. For example,
> removing the %files (which works without error) now I'm removing
> the %changelog and add the files back etc...
> The only problem is that yum should behave the same regardless off
> update file vs. http. Thats right.

>From what you've said above you mean one is a localpackage and the 
other is from a repo? that's a slight difference.

-sv