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

[Gary C Martin]

On 18 Aug 2008, at 00:54, Martin Langhoff 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...

Thanks for the tip. I decided to lay low and get on with other tasks,  
but for others out there the infrastructure seems to be back up and  
running again (having just been able to successfully yum install git  
on my XO).

--Gary