On 07/30/2014 05:23 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:

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This is on a Cubieboard2 (Allwinner A20) running the F19 remix from

http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/fedora/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp...

So since I am not suppose to update the kernel (so I have read) I tried:

yum update --exclude=kern*

But I see things like:

---> Package xl2tpd.armv7hl 0:1.3.6-1.fc19 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: kernel-modules-extra for package: xl2tpd-1.3.6-1.fc19.armv7hl

and the updated stops with:

Error: Package: xl2tpd-1.3.6-1.fc19.armv7hl (updates) Requires: kernel-modules-extra You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

So how do I update everything I can?

The answer is in the error message.... "yum update --exclude=kern* --skip-broken"

The difference between my reading that error message and you reading it is that you know that it is OK to '--skip-broken' I have never did this before, and did not know what is safe. Of course supposedly this is still a 'blow away' build. If I get it wrong, I will know for next time.

thanks for the help

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:

On 07/30/2014 05:23 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

...

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:

...

This is on a Cubieboard2 (Allwinner A20) running the F19 remix from

http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/fedora/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp...

So since I am not suppose to update the kernel (so I have read) I tried:

yum update --exclude=kern*

But I see things like:

---> Package xl2tpd.armv7hl 0:1.3.6-1.fc19 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: kernel-modules-extra for package: xl2tpd-1.3.6-1.fc19.armv7hl

and the updated stops with:

Error: Package: xl2tpd-1.3.6-1.fc19.armv7hl (updates) Requires: kernel-modules-extra You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

So how do I update everything I can?

The answer is in the error message.... "yum update --exclude=kern* --skip-broken"

So 5 packages were skipped:

Skipped (dependency problems): NetworkManager-l2tp.armv7hl 0:0.9.8.6-1.fc19 ldns.armv7hl 0:1.6.16-2.fc19 libreswan.armv7hl 0:3.8-1.fc19 unbound-libs.armv7hl 0:1.4.21-1.fc19 xl2tpd.armv7hl 0:1.3.6-1.fc19

Will this be a problem?

Unlikely, have you tried to see what functionality they provide and checking if you use it? The old versions will still be there. It's not too hard to work it out for yourself.

Peter