[Yum] Dependancy resolver issues with SuSE kernel update
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 16 04:43:59 UTC 2005
> 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..
>
yes - it was a bug and was fixed in cvs-HEAD for a while, it's also
fixed in the release from yesterday of yum 2.3.3.
It was fixed with a minor patch in fedora's yum 2.3.2 release.
-sv
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