[Fedora TeX Live] howto fix messed up upgrades

[Vedran Miletić]

If I were you, I would do

# yum erase texlive*

and reinstall everything after installing new texlive-release.

Regards,

Vedran

2012/7/19 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> I have a machine that was updated from f16/tl2011 to f17.  I'm now trying to
> fix it to sync with tl2012.
>
> It's a full install of tl2012 and there's lots of broken deps on update
> (packages which were in tl2011 and are gone from 2012, I guess).
>
> I know I can manually find each error, e.g.:
>
> Error: Package: texlive-cookybooky-2011-8.1.0.svn16216.noarch (@texlive/16)
>            Requires: texlive-base = 2011
>            Removing: texlive-base-2011-5.20120115_r25109.fc16.noarch
> (@texlive/16)
>                texlive-base = 2011-5.20120115_r25109.fc16
>            Obsoleted By: 1:texlive-base-2012-1.20120716_r.fc17.noarch
> (texlive)
>                texlive-base = 1:2012-1.20120716_r.fc17
>            Updated By: 1:texlive-base-2012-1.20120716_r.fc17.noarch
> (texlive)
>                texlive-base = 1:2012-1.20120716_r.fc17
>
> And remove the offending package.  I thought I'd seen posted to this list an
> automated way to fix this stuff?
>
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