F8 yum update barfing on unnecessary dependency?

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 08:18 -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> I am trying to update the kernel and kmod-nvidia together.
> 
> The messages I get are:
> ===================
> Setting up Update Process
<snip...>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 is needed by
> package kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
> ====================
> 
> I don't understand the Missing Dependency, since both kmod-nvidia and
> the new kernel that are available are for the same version.
> 
> What am I missing?  How can I get out of this lock-up?

I ran into this as well. The way I worked around it was to NOT update
the kernel directly. Then the nVidia update will pull the kernel update
as a dependency.

Note that you will then need to go back and also update kernel-devel.
The nVidia dependency fails to pull that part along.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Chris

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