yum error

[Jim Cornette]

Aaron Kurtz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 03:21 -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 06:34 +0000, Caleb Warta wrote: 
>>
>>>i am guessing but i need to update my kerrnel can some please give me some 
>>>ideas on how to update with yum like to start how to update my kerrnel sence 
>>>that seems to be my first issue
>>
>>Yum should update dependencies automatically - 
>>that's what it's designed for.
> 
> 
> This isn't yum's fault, this is just what happens when you use rawhide -
> some packages get pushed out before their dependecies are properly met.
> This has been mentioned over and over again, and should probably be part
> of the Release Notes or something for test releases.
> 
> yum --exclude=$package1 --exclude=$package2 $command will allow you to
> update everything else but the kernel. Here, looking at what it's asking
> for reveals that you have old kernel modules that haven't been updated
> for the latest kernel release, so yum --exclude=kernel update.

The problem does not limit installing additional kernels. I can install 
everything except the below rpms. As earlier stated, the current rawhide 
versions require a kernel version that does not exist in rawhide and is 
going on still, after some time.

Yum still needs a "best effort" updating routine. This is an RFI 
(request for improvement) feature though.

Kernel-2.6.11-1.1312_FC4 installed with little trouble.

yum --exclude=<long list of rpms entered under seperate --exclude= 
entries> -y update

Jim

  yum check-update
...
Reading repository metadata in from local files

GFS-kernel.i686                       2.6.11.5-20050505.1338 development
cman-kernel.i686                      2.6.11.3-20050425.1548 development
dlm-kernel.i686                       2.6.11.3-20050425.1548 development
gnbd-kernel.i686                      2.6.11.2-20050420.1331 development
libcdio.i386                             0.73-2                 Extras


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