[Tfug] yum problem, the solution

[Jim Secan]

Found the problem - as a result of the killed update, there were two
versions of the two X11 packages yum complains about "installed" on my system:

...
xorg-x11.i386                            6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386                 6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386                6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386            6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.i386      6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.i386      6.8.2-1.FC3.45.3.legac installed
    
xorg-x11-devel.i386                      6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-font-utils.i386                 6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-libs.i386                       6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-libs.i386                       6.8.2-1.FC3.45.3.legac installed
    
xorg-x11-tools.i386                      6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-twm.i386                        6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-xauth.i386                      6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
xorg-x11-xfs.i386                        6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2       installed
    
...

I used "yum remove" to get rid of the two legacy package versions and reran
the update process.  Update ran fine, and everything is OK now.
(User-friendly error handling????  Who needs that?)  Admittedly, killing
yum in mid-update was brain dead, but mistakes like that happen, and I
would have liked a bit clearer help from yum after-the-fact when I was
trying to figure out what was wrong.  A simple "Hey, dummy, there are two
versions of these packages installed" would have helped a lot.

Jim
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