----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: FC3 Up2date "custom kernel"
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 19:14 +1100, Nicholas Comino wrote:I've updated the kernel to 2.6.10 previously as part of installing
additional drivers required for networking. With updates, I don't know
enough to be particularly selective, I've been working through a few each
day with a view to getting almost all installed or ignored. I'm stuck at the
update for 'hal' with the following error:
"There was a package dependency problem... hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 requires kernel >=2.6.10"
I don't think I really need that particular update, solving this is more a
learning and avoiding the issue in future. Previously I've been told not to
worry about custom kernel warning in up2date. But can I revert to the rpm
version of kernel2.6.10 (using up2date) without losing the additional
indispensable networking drivers? It could be I'm misunderstanding the
problem entirely.
The dependency problem you're having is because the RPM database doesn't know that you're using a 2.6.10 kernel, because presumably you built your own from source and are using that 2.6.10 kernel.
The neatest way to overcome this problem is to build your custom kernel with the additional drivers you need as an RPM and install that, so the RPM database will know about it. Instructions for doing this can be found at:
http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/
Paul.
Thanks - that is exactly the problem and solution (if I have to). Last quick question, if I went ahead and installed it by up2date would I lose the added on drivers?
