Problems upgrading mkinitrd, oprofile

[VB]

Yeah, it would have been nice...forgot.  I'm using RH9
("stock", installed off of downloaded ISOs). Should I
use the --force option for lvm2 also? I'm not sure how
the conflicts between lvm and lvm2 should be handled. 
Thanks.

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> VB wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to update to mkinitrd 3.5.15.1-2 and
> > oprofile 0.5.4-3 but get the following:
> > 
> > file /usr/share/man/man8/lvchange.8.gz from
> install of
> > lvm2-2.00.08-2
> > conflicts with file from package lvm-1.0.3-12
> > (... same type of message repeated with a lot of
> other
> > conflicts ...)
> > 
> > **this is when I try to install the lvm2 rpm
> (which
> > mkinitrd complains as needing) **
> > 
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libdb-4.1.so is needed by oprofile-0.5.4-3
> > 
> > ** this is when I try to install the oprofile rpm
> **
> > 
> > Could somebody please point me in the right
> direction?
> 
> It would have been nice if you had told use what
> version of OS you're
> running.  It appears that you're running FC1, since
> the latest libdb4
> for RH 9 is 4.0.
> 
> You need to update or install the db4 devel RPMs to
> satisfy oprofile:
> 
> 	"yum update db4-devel" OR "yum install db4-devel" 
> (via yum)
> 	"rpm -Uvh db4-devel*.rpm" (after downloading)     
> (via RPM)
> 
> If upgrading/installing oprofile via "rpm", you need
> to add the
> "--force" option to the command.  Yumshould sort
> that out for you
> automagically.
>
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