the proper way to 'yum update' a new 'everything' install of FC4?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, William Hooper wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > i just installed a new FC4 system -- an "everything" install -- and it
> > can't be just plain "yum update"d because of some dependency issues.
> >
> > the errors are that the four kernel packages {gnbd,GFS,cman,dlm}-kernel
> > claim to need /lib/modules/2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.
>
> These out-of-tree kernel modules are currently lagging the regular kernel
> updates.  If you aren't using them (if you have to ask what they are, you
> aren't using them), just remove them.
>
> > p.s.  i suspect i don't even *need* those four kernel packages and i could
> > just delete them at which point the update would work, but i'm more
> > interested in the solution for this in case something similar happens
> > again WRT to other packages.  thanks.
>
> These packages are a special case because: 1) they depend on the
> exact kernel version to match and 2) they can't be released until
> after a new kernel has been released.

fair enough.  but in that case, something should be tweaked to deal
with this since i would still contend that a fresh install should be
able to be "yum update"d without messing around with anything.

rday