mkinitrd error, not sure if I can force

[nilesh vaghela]

yes you can do that.

I have done 2-3 time in past with RHEL3 and works.


On 5/24/07, Patrick B. O'Brien <pobrien at doit.nv.gov> wrote:
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> Red Hat Admin,
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> I'm trying to upgrade my kernel. There are dependencies. They are as
> follows. The mkinitrd dependency is old; I'm on a later version. Can I
> just force this install? What rpm flags should I use? TIA!
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> admobrie at listserv3:/listserv $ rpm -qa|grep mkinitrd
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> mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
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> admobrie at listserv3:/listserv $ sudo rpm -ivh mkinitrd*4.2.1.6-1*.rpm
> --test
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> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
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>         file /sbin/grubby from install of mkinitrd-4.2.1.6-1 conflicts
> with file from package mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
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>         file /sbin/mkinitrd from install of mkinitrd-4.2.1.6-1 conflicts
> with file from package mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
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>         file /sbin/nash from install of mkinitrd-4.2.1.6-1 conflicts
> with file from package mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
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> listserv3:/listserv # rpm -ivh kernel*2.6.9-55*.rpm  --test
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> error: Failed dependencies:
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>         mkinitrd >= 4.2.1.6-1 is needed by
> kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-55.EL.i686
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>         mkinitrd >= 4.2.1.6-1 is needed by kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.EL.i686
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>         mkinitrd >= 4.2.1.6-1 is needed by kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.EL.i686
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