FC7 Kernel upgrade

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:59 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried updating two systems this morning.  One refused because it
> > > required a newer mkinitrd than was available, the other went ahead,
> > > despite there not being a newer mkinitrd.  Both are i686 systems, but
> > > the one that succeeded still had a FC6 kernel on it (not used though,
> > > and it was deleted by the update).
> > 
> > AFAICT from experimenting, yum bogusly updates despite the broken deps
> > on machines which have more than 1 older kernel installed, but refuses
> > to update if exactly 1 older kernel is installed.
> 
> As a counterpoint, I have a system with the first F7 kernel and the last
> FC6 kernel and command-line yum refused to upgrade.
Interesting, that's exactly the configuration I used for testing, on two
different machines.

Architecture? Mine is i386.

> As a workaround, enabling updates-testing repo and specifying an upgrade
> to kernel and/or kernel-devel will pull in the mkinitrd and nash
> depedencies.
> 
> BTW, for everyone complaining about yum upgrading despite dependencies,
> are you using command-line yum 
command-line yum.

> or the GUI tool?  I've had incidents
> where pup installed packages without including their dependencies, but
> I've never (yet) seen command-line yum do it.
My case is command-line yum, I haven't tried any of the GUI tools.

Ralf