Yum failing a dependency, removing FC3 packages of the same name as FC4

[Paul Howarth]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I think these two things might be related but I'm not sure.
> 
> Several months ago I used yum to update from FC3 to FC4.    I removed 
> the FC3 "fedora-release" package and installed the FC4 "fedora-release" 
> package then did yum -y update.  All went smooth.  I've been running 
> updates every week for quite a while with no problems.  Today during a 
> routine yum update I got the following dependency error:
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Conflict: hal conflicts kernel < 2.6.11
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.11
> 
> I'm running 2.6.12.
> 
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp #1 SMP
> 
> I ran a list of installed kernels and discovered:
> 
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1372_FC3      installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.9-1.667            installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1447_FC4      installed
> kernel.i686                              2.6.12-1.1398_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.35_FC3        installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1398_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.27_FC3        installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1372_FC3      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.9-1.667            installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.12-1.1447_FC4      installed
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.14_FC3        installed
> 
> 
> Is the old FC3 kernel causing my dependency problem with "hal"?

Yes.

> How do you remove a FC3 package when the FC4 package is named the same?

They aren't the same.

Do this to remove the pre-FC4 kernels:

# rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 \
kernel-2.6.9-1.667 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

You might also want to remove some of the older FC4 kernels if you're 
happy with the current kernel.

Paul.