[Yum] Dependancy resolver issues with SuSE kernel update

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 20:56 schrieb Hans-Peter Jansen:
> Hi,
>
> while using yum 2.3.2 since 3 month on top of SuSE 9.3 without
> problems, the newest (first) kernel update raises an issue here:
>
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package kernel-syms needs kernel-source = 2.6.11.4-20a, this
> is not available.
>
[...]
>
> Obviously, the new kernel-syms package is available.

Well, I might add, that this problem only occurred with "yum update".
Using "yum shell": 
> update
> run ts
> exit
all is well at first sight, and pointed in the right direction.. 

There is a difference in handling installonlypkgs within these variants, 
where "yum update" seems stricter (right): in my case, I had 
kernel-syms in installonlypkgs, but not kernel-source, which is 
required as exact version by kernel-syms. The "yum shell" variant 
happily _installed_ kernel-syms and updated kernel-source, which leaves 
the former installed kernel-syms with a missing dependancy to 
kernel-source. That qualifies as a bug in my eyes..

Pete