Yum failing a dependency, removing FC3 packages of the same name as FC4

[Ted Kaczmarek]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 08:59 -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I think these two things might be related but I'm not sure.
> 
> Several months ago I used yum to update from FC3 to FC4.    I removed 
> the FC3 "fedora-release" package and installed the FC4 "fedora-release" 
> package then did yum -y update.  All went smooth.  I've been running 
> updates every week for quite a while with no problems.  Today during a 
> routine yum update I got the following dependency error:
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Conflict: hal conflicts kernel < 2.6.11
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.11
> 
> I'm running 2.6.12.
> 
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp #1 SMP
> 
> I ran a list of installed kernels and discovered:
> 
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1372_FC3      installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.9-1.667            installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1447_FC4      installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1398_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.35_FC3        installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1398_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.27_FC3        installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1372_FC3      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.9-1.667            installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1447_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.14_FC3        installed
> 
> 
> Is the old FC3 kernel causing my dependency problem with "hal"?
> How do you remove a FC3 package when the FC4 package is named the same?
> 
> I don't think I want to "yum remove  kernel-smp.i686".  Which package 
> would it remove???
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doug P
> 
rpm -q kernel
rpm -q  kernel-smp
rpm -e "all the 2.6.9* and 2.6.11*" unless you have some reason to keep
these around.

Regards,
Ted