Annoying issue during fedora update... - Page 2

07-13-2009	#11 (permalink)
Drunk_Mexican Just Joined! Join Date: May 2008 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 49	Yum still is not working. Anyhow....I found a work around someone else cam up with that seems to have solved the problem at least for now. Code: yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing I don't understand how something as fundamental as package management in a Linux system fails.

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Originally Posted by Drunk_Mexican

Yum still is not working.

Anyhow....I found a work around someone else cam up with that seems to have solved the problem at least for now.

Code:

yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing

I don't understand how something as fundamental as package management in a Linux system fails.

In my opinion it is because the Fedora team didn't thoroughly test this stuff before shipping it out. I'm not trying to say anything bad about Fedora because this kind of thing happens to every distro at one time or another and evidently is still happening.

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