weird yum dependencies between kernel and kmod-nvidia in F8

[Mark Knoop]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 05.12.2007 08:59, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> I was running F8 with kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 together with
>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-18.lvn8 and 
>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-49.fc8-100.14.19-18.lvn8 When trying "yum
>> update kernel" (for updating kernel to version 2.6.23.8-63.fc8),
>> yum rejected this because the installed kmod-nvidia needs
>> kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8. But inspecting the livna repos showed me
>> that kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-19.lvn8 and
>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.8-63.fc8-100.14.19-19.lvn8 are absolutely
>> available. I had to uninstall all kmod-nvidia, then update the
>> kernel and then install kmod-nvidia again. Now my system runs with
>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-19.lvn8, 
>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.8-63.fc8-100.14.19-19.lvn8 and
>> kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8
>> 
>> Any issues?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330711
> http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/11/problems-updating-kernels-and-kmods.html
> http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/12/problems-updating-kernels-and-kmods-2.html

Another workaround:

yumdownloader kernel
rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm
yum update

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Mark Knoop