up2date complains about redhat-lsb needing /usr/bin/kill

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:41, Gene C. wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2004 23:26, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > I can't get my up2date going because of some redhat-lsb dependency.
> >
> > What is the deal?  How does one tell update to forget about redhat-lsb
> > since it is not in the update list anyway?
> >
> > Maybe there is another package package in the list related to redhat-lsb
> > that I am not aware of.
> 
> OK, this has been discussed on this mailing list previously so I could just 
> say ... check the archives.  But searching is currently not working/disabled 
> and a manual search can be a lot of work.
> 
> You could also check bugzilla ... there is a report on this.  You should 
> consider doing that in the future.
> 
> Anyway, here is the deal again ... /usr/bin/kill has been moved from the 
> coreutils package to the util-linux package.  You current util-linux package 
> is 2.12pre-3 and the updated util-linux package in development/rawhide is 
> 2.12-4.  Unfortunately, rpm/up2date consider the new 2.12-4 package to be 
> "older" than the 2.12pre-3 package.  To get around this you need to do the 
> rpm manually --
> 
>   rpm -Uvh --oldpackage  coreutils... util-linux...
> 
> You will need to download the two packages manually rather than using up2date.  
> You also need to update/install the two packages at the same time to get 
> around the switching of /usr/bin/kill from one package to the other.
Thanks for your help.  This worked great for me.






> -- 
> Gene
>