On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:59 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > > > > > 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). > > > > AFAICT from experimenting, yum bogusly updates despite the broken deps > > on machines which have more than 1 older kernel installed, but refuses > > to update if exactly 1 older kernel is installed. > > As a counterpoint, I have a system with the first F7 kernel and the last > FC6 kernel and command-line yum refused to upgrade. Interesting, that's exactly the configuration I used for testing, on two different machines. Architecture? Mine is i386. > As a workaround, enabling updates-testing repo and specifying an upgrade > to kernel and/or kernel-devel will pull in the mkinitrd and nash > depedencies. > > BTW, for everyone complaining about yum upgrading despite dependencies, > are you using command-line yum command-line yum. > or the GUI tool? I've had incidents > where pup installed packages without including their dependencies, but > I've never (yet) seen command-line yum do it. My case is command-line yum, I haven't tried any of the GUI tools. Ralf
