Re: A question about yum

2010-05-28 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I remember all those IEF messages and a TON of others. I liked the "Contact your Systems Programmer" but never said what to do if you were the Systems Programmer. And of course my favorite, "this page intentionally blank". With all the stress in the world, it's good to have this release in l

Yahoo Mail Caveats (Was Re: A question about yum.)

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 5/28/10, George R Goffe wrote: > Tim, > > I have been looking for replies but found none, that is why I re-posted. > In looking at the archive I see that some have not arrived in my inbox. > Sigh. I have been having troubles with yahoo classic for the past few > months, searching fail

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2010, Greg Woods wrote: >On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, >> meaning Do What I Mean > >I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) > Now that has got to rate a ROTFLMAO! -- Cheers, G

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, > meaning Do What I Mean I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:49 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > This thread lives again! Here's my favorite from a > > previous useless error thread: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-April/msg03494.html > > There was this brilliant co

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > This thread lives again! Here's my favorite from a > previous useless error thread: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-April/msg03494.html There was this brilliant command on the Amiga, called "why." After some program had ju

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The gold medal goes to the (possibly apocryphal) story of the IBM > mainframe in the 60s that was said to emit the cryptic message: > > Wrong Error I wonder what the right error was? ;-) -- [...@loca

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:57:08 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 04:27 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > > > > and the winner, "an error has occurred". I know, it's h

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Tim, > > I have been looking for replies but found none, that is why I re-posted. In > looking at the archive I see that some have not arrived in my inbox. Sigh. I > have been having troubles with yahoo classic for the past few months, > s

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:57:08 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 04:27 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > > > and the winner, "an error has occurred". I know, it's hard to > > believe > > > that last one. > > > > I think it was on

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 04:27 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > > and the winner, "an error has occurred". I know, it's hard to > believe > > that last one. > > I think it was on a Mac that I first saw something like "an error has > occurred, because an u

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 04:27 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > and the winner, "an error has occurred". I know, it's hard to believe > that last one. I think it was on a Mac that I first saw something like "an error has occurred, because an unknown error has occurred," or something equally stupid. >

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread George R Goffe
l which always reports 0 pkgs removed. I'm probably doing something wrong but for the life of me, I can't see it. Maybe a plugin? Regards AND apologies for the confusion. George... Message: 3 Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:21:48 +0930 From: Tim Subject: Re: A question about yum To: Communit

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-28 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 23:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > It may actually be a duplicate mail. Possibly, but the have different message IDs and dates, and other headers. If the original poster didn't resend, my guess would be Yahoo mail (his service) not managing being greylisted, by this list, ver

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-27 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 23:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:03:27 +0930 > Tim wrote: > > > > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? > > > > Not reading replies, from what I can see... > > It may actually be a duplicate mail. For some reason > I've gotten a few of those i

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:03:27 +0930 Tim wrote: > > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? > > Not reading replies, from what I can see... It may actually be a duplicate mail. For some reason I've gotten a few of those in the last day or two, and I think I saw a mention of duplicates by someo

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-27 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 20:21 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? Not reading replies, from what I can see... You asked this question on Wednesday, and got two replies. The answer hasn't changed in the meantime (that, most likely, you're wasting your time tryin

A question about yum

2010-05-27 Thread George R Goffe
Howdy, I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but now I'm seeing 0 files. Am I doing something wrong by any chance? Regards and thanks for your time, George... yum clean all Loaded plugins: aliases, a

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-26 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 00:07 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum > clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but > now I'm seeing 0 files. > > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? If you've removed the file

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-26 Thread Andre Robatino
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572553 There used to be a yum-presto bug where multiple cleanup messages would be printed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524633) and this seems to be a side effect of fixing that. (I noticed it immediately after the other bug was fixed, bu

A question about yum

2010-05-26 Thread George R Goffe
Howdy, I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but now I'm seeing 0 files. Am I doing something wrong by any chance? Regards and thanks for your time, George... yum clean all Loaded plugins: aliases,