On the 19th yum decided to pull in a new libdvdread even though other packages depended on the old version. Hence, those programs can no longer run. apt-get check confirms that yum has made a mess of thing: [root@poseidon ~]# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: gstreamer-plugins-ugly: Depends: libdvdread.so.3 mencoder: Depends: libdvdread.so.3 mplayer: Depends: libdvdread.so.3 mplayer-gui: Depends: libdvdread.so.3 (a yum check would be nice, but that's another issue) I don't see how the dependency tree would allow such an update?
I can now reproduce this. I downloaded the old packages (libdvdread and libdvdnav from koji and livna) and downgraded. I then proceeded to attempt an upgrade. Command line yum refuses to break the system (or at least I can't find a way). It always detects that it will break a dependency. So everything is green there. Pirut however! Clicking go the first time gives me an error about breaking dependencies. Clicking a second time gives me the same error. But clicking a third time causes it to proceed carelessly! (The reason I got hit by this the first time was that I had a whole bunch of updates where some wouldn't apply. So it took me a few attempts to figure out what to unselect.)
Thanks for the full details on reproducing. Fixed both in upstream yum (so that API users can't hit this case) and worked around in pirut. Will be in pirut >= 1.3.27
pirut-1.3.27-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pirut'
I have pirut-1.3.27-1.fc9 and problem is still there. Only now, it proceeds on the second attempt instead of the third. yum is not updated though, so it's the extra check in pirut that is somehow ineffective.
pirut-1.3.28-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pirut-1.3.28-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Bug is still there in 1.3.28. Now I also have yum 3.2.7-2, so the check should be there as well.
just for sanity's sake - grab yum 3.2.8 and make sure you still see this?
Tested, and I can no longer provoke the problem in pirut.