Yum dependencies [still]

[Ralf Corsepius]

I hope you don't mind me responding to the list upon this PM ...

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 02:15 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>That approach is certainly a yum issue, not an issue with the packager.
> >>I think many of us would agree with that.
> > 
> > No disagreement, here. This issue ("how to react upon broken rpm-deps")
> > is a yum problem, however, the broken rpm-deps are a livna issue.
> > 
> > If livna recompiled kernel-module-nvidia for older kernels, this thread
> > would not have appeared. Their current method however, forces anybody to
> > manually do this by themselves or to find other ways around it.

> Are you suggesting Ralf there is a resolution to the problem?
Yes, there is one:

Whenever yum refuses to update because of a livna kernel-module-nvidia
update, rebuild the new kernel-module-nvidia for your old kernel and
install it.

>  If so, please explain.
When yum refuses to due to an nvidia update, stop the update and ...

1. Download the corresponding nvidia-glx*src.rpm, e.g.:
# wget \
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/SRPMS.lvn/nvidia-glx-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4.src.rpm

2. Install the kernel-devel-*.rpm, you want to rebuild
kernel-module-nvidia for, e.g.:
# yum install kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4

3. Rebuild kernel-module-nvidia
# rpmbuild --without userland \
--define "kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4" --target i686 \
--rebuild nvidia-glx-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4.src.rpm

This will produce
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4.i686.rpm
which is one of the packages missing at livna.

4. Install this rpm
# rpm -U \
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4-1.0.8174-0.lvn.1.4.i686.rpm
and run "yum update" again.

Depending upon the number of kernels you have installed, and you want to
keep on your system, you will have to rebuild kernel-module-nvidia for
each of those kernels livna doesn't provide appropriate packages for.

So be prepared to iterate through steps 2-4 several times.

Ralf