At 02:55 PM 9/10/2015, you wrote:
10/09/2015 23:52, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
10/09/2015 21:56, david wrote:
Folks
While trying to add a second desktop to my Centos7 installation (I had GNOME3, wanted to add KDE as an alternate), the install failed:
<snip> >I use priorities, as follows: > >1: base >2: centosplus >3: updates >4: extras >5: cr >6: contrib >7: epel > >Can anyone explain this? or let me know how to get around it? >Rebuilding the server from scratch is definitely possible since this is >a test environment only.
you need the same priority for updates as base, since packages in updates update packages in... base ;-) change updates prio to 1 and you should be good.
BTW cr should also have prio 1 (same as base and updates) since when it exists it also updates packages in base+updates. ___
YIKES -- to think I've had that mistake for years since WhiteBox Linux and never knewshu. Lots of other updates happened, and then a reboot to use a new Kernel, and finally KDE installed without a hitch.
Yum/Priorities/Repos maintainer: Maybe there should be a suggestion, or "default" setting of priorities that at least does what the above suggests, or comments to that effect in the repo files so others won't make the same mistake I did.
Thanks a lot
David