Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:26 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: >> When I try to upgrade kernel to latest update I get: >> >> Missing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 is needed by package kernel >> >> on my system I have mkinitrd-6.0.9-5 > I am having the opposite problem. > > This morning's yum update upgraded the kernel despite it has broken > deps: > > # rpm -q --requires kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 | grep mkinitrd > mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 > # rpm -q mkinitrd > mkinitrd-6.0.9-5 > > => yum should have refused to update the kernel package, because the > deps can't be satisfied: > > # yum provides mkinitrd > ... > mkinitrd.i386 6.0.9-5 > fedora > Matched from: > mkinitrd > ... > mkinitrd.i386 6.0.9-5 > installed > Matched from: > Provides-match: mkinitrd > > ... something is very much in limbo in yum-land :) > > apt correctly refuses to upgrade: > # apt-get upgrade > ... > kernel#2.6.21-1.3228.fc7: PreDepends: mkinitrd (>= 6.0.9-7.1) > > Ralf > > I tried updating two systems this morning. One refused because it required a newer mkinitrd than was available, the other went ahead, despite there not being a newer mkinitrd. Both are i686 systems, but the one that succeeded still had a FC6 kernel on it (not used though, and it was deleted by the update). -- Sjoerd Mullender
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