Problem With yum update

[Boris Glawe]

Troy Bull schrieb:
> I just tried to do yum update on my 2 fedora 7 boxes, and I get the 
> following error:
>
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package system-config-printer.i386 0:0.7.63.2-2.fc7 set to be 
> updated
> ---> Package system-config-printer-libs.i386 0:0.7.63.2-2.fc7 set to 
> be updated
> filelists.sqlite.bz2      100% |=========================| 1.0 MB    
> 00:01    ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package redhat-menus.noarch 0:8.9.10-3.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 for package: kernel
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 is needed by package 
> kernel
> [root at source ~]#
>

I can confirm this!

> I tried
>
> yum install mkinitrd and it said nothing to do, any pointers??
>

The problem is, that the kernel requires a newer version of mkinitrd, 
which is not available. If it was, yum would have upgraded it without 
complaints. So it doesn't help, if you manually upgrade mkinitrd.

You can exclude the kernel upgrade, in order to at least update the rest 
of the packages.

yum -y --exclude="kernel*" update

Wait until, the newer version of mkinitrd is available in the repository!

greets Boris