The Ghost in the Machine: "conflicts filesystem"

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/10/2012 01:31 PM, fedoraproject at oeconomist.com wrote:
> Since updating from Core 16 to Core 17, I've been getting some yum dependency
> failures, with the diagnostic
>
> "Processing Conflict: [package name] conflicts filesystem < 3"
>
> or
>
> "Processing Conflict: [package name] conflicts filesystem < 3-2"
>
> Apparently, this is supposed to occur when one attempts to install a package that
> needs the new files system on a system using the old file system.
>
> But my file system appears to have been successfully updated.  /bin, /lib, and
> /sbin are aliases for appropriate subdirectories of /usr.  If I again try to update
> the filesystem, dmesg reports that it was already updated.
>
> So at what is yum looking that tells it that the file system is not updated, and
> how do I fix that?
>

It seems possible the system thinks you have the old version of filesystem still
installed.

What does

rpm q filesystem     or    rpm -qa | grep ^filesystem

return?

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