On 07/03/15 05:21, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote:
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
You are trying to update with syslinux from RPM Forge (a third party
repo). Are you sure you want this package to try install?
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.
If you need RF packages, you could look into "exclude" and
includepkgs" in "yum.conf".
You can list the provenance of your packages with
rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VENDOR}\n'
... and this link might save a little experimentation.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/579285#579285
