Re: FC7 Kernel upgrade

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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

i386 as well, here.

> 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 


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