Yum failing a dependency, removing FC3 packages of the same name as FC4
Alexander Dalloz
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Thu Sep 15 16:09:48 UTC 2005
Am Do, den 15.09.2005 schrieb Douglas Phillipson um 17:59:
> 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?
>
> I don't think I want to "yum remove kernel-smp.i686". Which package
> would it remove???
rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 kernel-2.6.9-1.667
kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.35_FC3
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 kernel-smp2.6.9-1.667
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
This is 1 line / single command. Of course you can run the erase in
several steps. Have some patience to get all the kernels deleted.
> Doug P
Alexander
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