On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:19 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > Yum by default does an install on new kernels and modules. That is so > it does not break the existing installation. > > However, as Paul has stated, other packages are not installed but > upgraded. (The older package is removed) > > I would be willing to guess that using Paul's procedure it will work or > you simply might try > yum install kernel-module-nvidia..... nvidia-glx..... > with the matching 7167 version numbers and it should work. > You might need to use a force or nodeps option. > > This might be a failed dependency configuration of the nvidia-glx > package and since that comes from livna the issue at that point would > need to be addressed to Axel there. > > As I said above, it may be a packaging issue. That would need to be > addressed to the packager directly, Livna. Thanks, Jeff. I've already added comments to this bug: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385 You and Paul are bringing me round to the idea that "yum install" is what is needed, but I think that is a failure in yum. Or, it could be a packaging bug. But I don't think a user, especially one who is not as experienced as I am (I've been using GNU/Linux for years, I'm a web developer, etc.), should ever be confronted with this conundrum: $ sudo yum list updates [snip] Updated Packages kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.i6 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 livna-testing nvidia-glx.i586 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 livna-testing $ sudo yum update [snip] Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies Error: Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 needs nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629, this is not available. Yum may be hard-coded to not update kernel modules, but that shouldn't include a newer version of the *same* (i.e. built for exactly the same kernel) module. Maybe the shortcoming is in rpm, maybe yum has no way of telling what is a new version of an existing kernel module and what is a kernel module for a totally different kernel. But whether the fault is with yum or rpm it still needs an RFE. Now if I can just determine what exactly is going on, I'm happy to do the honours. Yum RFE? RPM RFE? or Livna packaging bug? Suggestions welcome! Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
