On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 03:54 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > running into a snag. Though I could obviously handle it in a variety of > > different ways, thought I would point this out and see if anyone has a > > suggestion that I am missing. > > > > Transaction Check Error: > > file /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default-5_4.jpg from install of > > desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-40.el5.centos conflicts with file from > > package redhat-logos-4.9.16-1 > > file /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default-dual-wide.jpg from install > > of desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-40.el5.centos conflicts with file from > > package redhat-logos-4.9.16-1 > > file /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default-dual.jpg from install of > > desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-40.el5.centos conflicts with file from > > package redhat-logos-4.9.16-1 > > file /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default-wide.jpg from install of > > desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-40.el5.centos conflicts with file from > > package redhat-logos-4.9.16-1 > > file /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.jpg from install of > > desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-40.el5.centos conflicts with file from > > package redhat-logos-4.9.16-1 > > > > Craig, > > Install the redhat-logos package from centos and the desktop-backgrounds > package from centos these 2 packages control the look and fee of the > distribution and don't really track upstream packages at all. > > You will have to force the redhat-logos install as the upstream version > has a higher number than CentOS-5 at this time: > > upstream: 4.9.16-1 > centos: 4.9.8-6 > > The CentOS version of redhat-logos does not track the upstream version > (and that is one of 2 packages that _HAS_TO_ be replaced do rebuilding > entities) so that is why yum will not install it. > > We should probably release a newer version of redhat-logos to make our > package install instead as an upgrade to the upstream one, but you can > manually download the package and do: > > rpm -Uvh --force <centos-version>.rpm ---- OK - here's my methodology for upgrading in case it helps someone cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release-saved rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes \ redhat-releaserpm \ yum-rhn-plugin \ redhat-logos rpm -ivh \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.0.0-2.i386.rpm yum update Seems to have worked just fine (redhat-logos replaced automatically as a dependency) Thanks for the help, sorry about the html but I the long lines were breaking Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071029/ccdff37c/attachment-0004.html>