> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Herbert Graf
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 6:33 AM

...

> For example, I upgraded my machine from FC3 to FC4. Everything works
> fine, except up2date still thinks it's FC3 (anyone know what to change
> to get up2date to know it's running on FC4?) and 'yum update' doesn't
> work!!??!

I had similar problems with yum thinking that it was updating FC3 on an
FC4 machine.  I think the solution was to delete /etc/yum.conf.  The
problem happened on my home PC and I'm not at home, so I'm relying on my
ever fading memory.

FC4 puts all it's configuration in a subdirectory of /etc, but yum kept
using the old yum.conf and not getting basename right too.  I've been
using yum since RH9, and it seems they do something every Fedora release
to cause me pains with yum.

> Latest message is that a package it wants to install conflicts
> with one installed, yet neither are recognized by yum on their own,
very
> frustrating. Looks like I'll have to wipe this machine and install FC4
> fresh, oh well...

Have you tried uninstalling the conflicting package before you use yum?
I had a problem with XFCE installs because I installed non-Fedora RPMs
before XFCE was included in Fedora.  Then Fedora included XFCE, but
packaged it differently and I kept getting errors about packages
conflicting.

-Mike
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