On 03/06/2015 06:57 PM, Phil Wyett wrote:
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 15:46 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
I attempted to update a SL 7 system using the Add/Remove Software GUI
update feature. The update fails with:
Test Transaction Errors: file /sbin/extlinux from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/cat.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/chain.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/cmd.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/config.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/cpuid.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
syslinux-extlinux-4.05-8.el7.x86_64
file /boot/extlinux/cpuidtest.c32 from install of
syslinux-5.10-1.el7.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package syslinux...
However, as there is no "find" command on the above GUI (unless it is a
control or escape sequence of which I am unaware), a visual scan of the
list of packages to be installed does not reveal any syslinux files, and
the GUI does not seem to show dependencies and/or additional files that
must be installed. Do I manually use yum to remove the offending
syslinux file and then rerun the update or will this cripple the system
making the update impossible?
System information:
NAME="Scientific Linux"
VERSION="7.0 (Nitrogen)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="7.0"
PRETTY_NAME="Scientific Linux 7.0 (Nitrogen)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:GA"
HOME_URL="http://www.scientificlinux.org//";
BUG_REPORT_URL="scientific-linux-de...@listserv.fnal.gov"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux 7"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.0
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Scientific Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.0
from: /etc/os-release
uname -a
Linux [redacted] 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 11 15:55:14 CDT
2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
extlinux -v
extlinux 4.05 Copyright 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
syslinux -v
syslinux 4.05 Copyright 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
What other information do I need?
Yasha Karant
Hi,
You are trying to update with syslinux from RPM Forge (a third party
repo). Are you sure you want this package to try install?
Regards
Phil
If I correctly understand you, one of the repos that I needed to install
in my Add/Remove software (and yum) database was RPM Forge -- presumably
for some application (or development environment) that I needed and that
was not building easily from source. Thank you for identifying the
repository. (Is there a list of which RPM comes from which repo? That
is, other than by prior knowledge and inspection, is there any
clean/clear mechanism to identify .rfx. as RPM Forge, etc.?)
Thus, if I "deactivate" RPM Forge for now via the Add/Remove GUI, the
update should work. I will not be at my machine until Monday next, but
I shall test this idea then.
Thanks,
Yasha
