Breaks yum also? (Was: Missing critical dependency, Koji)

[Bobby Powers]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> Just a quick double check – I take it that all yum attempted installs
>> will also be failing at the moment? Having re-flashed my XO last night
>> I was trying to pull in some additional system monitoring tools for
>> tests. Yom gives the error:
>
> I'm not sure about the Koji repo, but the release version scheme on
> the XO is breaking yum when it comes to vanilla Fedora packages,
> whiich is a shame.
>
> Workaround - with the example of installing lsof and gdb from the
> vanilla fedora repo:
>
>  - replace $releasever with 9 in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
>  - run yum --disablerepo=olpc_devel --enablerepo=fedora install lsof gdb
>
> Disabling olpc_devel only makes sense als long as the koji repo is down.
>
> Time to split "fedorareleasever" from "olpcreleasever"? They are 2
> different beasts...

I reported this a while ago, it messes up Livna as well
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7398

Bobby

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