Issue updating due to package conflicts

[Marius Andreiana]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 16:02 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > The printout from yum is backwards - they need newer kernels. Remove
> > > some of your older ones.
> > Is there any way of upgrading if I have only kernel 2.6.11 installed? (I
> > cannot remove it as it's the only one)
> > 
> 
> 1. upgrade your kernel(yum update kernel)
> 2. reboot
> 3. remove your old kernel (yum erase kernel-2.6.11
> 4. update the rest of the stuff.
Thank you Seth, but it won't work:

# yum update kernel
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
extras-development        100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.14-1.1642_FC5 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 4.2.21-1 for package: kernel
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts iptables < 1.3.2-1
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts kudzu < 1.2.5
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts nfs-utils < 1.0.7-12
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts selinux-policy-targeted <
1.25.3-14
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts udev < 063-6
--> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts procps < 3.2.5-6.3
--> Processing Dependency: initscripts >= 8.11.1-1 for package: kernel
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package nfs-utils.i386 0:1.0.7-19.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:1.27.2-13 set to be
updated
---> Package iptables.i386 0:1.3.2-1 set to be updated
---> Package procps.i386 0:3.2.6-1 set to be updated
---> Package mkinitrd.i386 0:5.0.8-1 set to be updated
---> Package udev.i386 0:071-1 set to be updated
---> Package initscripts.i386 0:8.17-1 set to be updated
---> Package kudzu.i386 0:1.2.10-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel < 2.6.12
--> Processing Dependency: policycoreutils >= 1.27.18-1 for package:
selinux-policy-targeted
--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
--> Processing Dependency: hwdata >= 0.169-1 for package: kudzu
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package policycoreutils.i386 0:1.27.19-2 set to be updated
---> Package hwdata.noarch 0:0.169-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libsemanage.so.1(LIBSEMANAGE_1.0) for
package: policycoreutils
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel < 2.6.12
--> Processing Dependency: libsemanage.so.1 for package: policycoreutils
--> Processing Dependency: libsepol >= 1.9.33-1 for package:
policycoreutils
--> Processing Conflict: hwdata conflicts system-config-display < 1.0.31
--> Processing Dependency: libsemanage >= 1.3.38-1 for package:
policycoreutils
--> Processing Dependency: module-init-tools >= 3.2 for package: hwdata
--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package libsepol.i386 0:1.9.36-1 set to be updated
---> Package module-init-tools.i386 0:3.2-0.pre7.3 set to be updated
---> Package system-config-display.noarch 0:1.0.32-1 set to be updated
---> Package libsemanage.i386 0:1.3.39-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: rhpl >= 0.170-1 for package:
system-config-display
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel < 2.6.12
--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package rhpl.i386 0:0.176-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel < 2.6.12
--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel < 2.6.12
--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available.
Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available.

I've downloaded packages manually and used rpm -Uvh, which worked.

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Marius Andreiana