Problem upgrading to test2

[Satish Balay]

Hm.. not sure whats wrong here - but the packages to satisfy these
dependencies are there.. (This is with rawhide)

$ rpm -q --whatprovides fileutils
coreutils-5.2.1-5
$ rpm -q --whatprovides module-init-tools
modutils-2.4.26-15
$ rpm -q initscripts mkinitrd
initscripts-7.50-1
mkinitrd-3.5.21-1

Perhaps you can try a different mirror?

Also - there could be more 'yum' mirrors which are in sync - and I
recommend using yum instead of apt - for fedora.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg03357.html

Use a different mirror in /etc/yum.conf. And I would substitute 'yum
upgrade' for 'yum update' in those instructions.

Satish

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Carl Youngblood wrote:

> Is this the wrong mailing list to post a question like this?  If so, 
> where would be a good place to do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl Youngblood
> 
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I've been following the instructions in an article on 
> > fedoranews.org that explains how to update one's system from Fedora 
> > core 1 to core 2 test 1, only I'm trying to do it for test 2 instead 
> > of test1 (the instructions are basically the same--I just need to 
> > download the apt rpm from a different location).
> >
> > The article is here:
> >
> > http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/
> >
> > I can get as far as being able to run apt-get update with no apparent 
> > problems.  However, when I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade, I get a 
> > long list of proposed changes and then an error message like this:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > kernel#2.6.5-1.322: PreDepends: fileutils
> >                     PreDepends: module-init-tools
> >                     PreDepends: initscripts (>= 5.83) but it is not 
> > going to be installed
> >                     PreDepends: mkinitrd (>= 3.5.5) but it is not 
> > going to be installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
> >
> > Apparently these packages are part of the coreutils package, which 
> > can't be removed without hosing the system.  Does anyone know a way 
> > that I can get around this?  Right now my apt is in an unusable state 
> > because it's core 2 test 2's apt but it's running on core 1.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Carl Youngblood
> 
> 
>