From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:53:51 -0800 (PST), Karl Dalen wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:49:15 PM UTC-8, Bit Twister wrote:   
   >> If you enable updates, you should also enable release for any media.   
   >> I assume you have no debug/testing/backport selections.   
   >>   
   > Sure, I will enable the tainted release as well and try again.   
      
   It should go much better.   
      
   > I double checked, there are no debug/backport/testing lines in   
   > the list of sources to select from,   
      
   Good.   
      
   > only core, non-free and tainted.   
   > I suppose based on the warnings generated I could go into the   
   > package management gui from mcc and manually remove them from there   
   > and then rerun the --test option till I get a clean run.   
      
   Note, you will get less and less ftp package downloads with each run.   
   That is because the other packages are in the rpm cache.   
      
   > Is the log file generated really possible to use directly as   
   > input the way you described earlier.   
      
   Hmmm, I do not like what I think you are thinking, but if you are good   
   at scripting, it is possible to parse the log, but me thinks you would   
   be setting yourself up for some grief/maintenance headaches.   
      
      
   > It has a lot of other   
   > status info lines in addition to the ftp addresses.   
   > Also, need to get sshd to work so I don't need to physically   
   > sit by the machine to debug.   
      
   Yes, I hear that, even though I have a video/keyboard/mouse switcher   
   leaning up against my monitor, it is nice to just click a desktop   
   shortcut an be at the root prompt on my other machines.   
      
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