Missing Dependency

Philip Walden pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Thu Jul 20 16:57:33 UTC 2006


Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:44:31PM -0500, Stephen Esquibel wrote:
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>>On 7/19/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:10:03PM -0500, Stephen Esquibel wrote:
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>>>>I have an error when using yumex.
>>>>
>>>>Missing Dependency: madwifi-kmod-common >= 0.9.0 is needed by package
>>>>kmod-madwifi
>>>>
>>>>Is it a problem with the livna or atrpms repos? I am trying to update
>>>>to the 2157 kernel, but without madwifi, it is useless to me.
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>>>>
>>>These packages names are not used at ATrpms. Maybe you need to allow
>>>livna some more time for these packages to be built and published?
>>>
>>>BTW you should really know where you installed kernel modules packages
>>>from, as mixing say userland packages from one repo and kernel modules
>>>packages from another will not do good. Pick a repo (in this case
>>>livna) and stick with it when upgrading madwifi.
>>>      
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>>Thanks for the help!  I unchecked the atrpms repo in yumex, but the
>>dependency check failed (I even included livna-development and
>>livna-testing) for the madwifi-kmod-common rpm.
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>>Also, is there a reason (could be this one) as to why I have to go to
>>the install tab in yumex to download madwifi for the new kernel
>>instead of the update page (like ntfs modules)?
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>Sorry, I'm the ATrpms guy, so I know how the ATrpms bits work, but not
>how the livna packages work especially in yumex. I'd still give livna
>some time, any missing package will soon show up. But you can also
>notify livna on this (they prefer bugzilla entries, but there is also
>a mailing list)
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I have installed the livna madwifi package, so there are no missing 
dependencies.

Try doing a "yum clean all" and try again.




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