Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but my attempted yum upgrade of my FC5 system to FC8 is snagged 3 or 4 dependancy errors, listed below (3 of them from ATRPMs).
Initially, I started by installing the fedora-release-8 RPM, then I tried "yum upgrade". It failed. so, I installed a whole bunch of F8 RPMS by hand. I ran "yum check-update" to get a list of what needed updating. then I started the long tedious updating process (took me 3-4 days of off and on updating). I think about 1/3 to 1/2 of the RPMS got updated to FC8. The ones that didn't were dependent upon either Python or Perl and had quite the complicated dependency tree. I was unable to update RPM, YUM, Perl, Python, X, or the kernel. My attempt to install the kernel RPM by hand resulted in a mkinitrd dependency, which resulted in a Python dependency, which .... So, I started looking into the failed packages in the final yum upgrade report. I ended up removing a whole bunch of packages which I can either re-install or I don't really need (including mythmusic), and I've ended up with the 4 errors listed below: [dependency checking removed] > --> Running transaction check > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by > package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by > package video4linux-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by > package lirc-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 > Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies > Error: Package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available. > Error: Package kmod-nvidia needs kernel-i686 = 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not > available. > Error: Package video4linux-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available. > Error: Package lirc-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available. Amazing! why are the fc5 kmdls (and the Livna kmod-nvidia) holding up my upgrade? each kernel module is listed in yum.conf as: installonlypkgs="kernel,ivtv-kmdl,lirc-kmdl,video4linux-kmdl,kmod-nvidia" Why are they trying to be upgraded? Shouldn't the new versions just be installed with the new kernel? So, I tried a different tact, I booted the F8 i386 install DVD, and attempted an UPGRADE. I got 99% of the way through the depsolver in about 1 hour, 1 hour later it still had not moved any further. I think I was bitten by the yumloop bug that was bugzilla-ed. So, I read through the bug report, and tried the suggested fix using an update.img from JKatz. No dice, Anaconda dies right after I select the UPGRADE button. I attached my Anaconda dump to the bugzilla report. Now, back to my current problem. Why can't I "upgrade" my FC5 to F8 via yum. Everything else seems to be ready to upgrade. What's holding these 4 kernel modules back. I'm hoping its something simple I've either missed or forgotten to do. If I can at least solve the 3 ATRPMs kmdls I'm willing to uninstall the nvidia stuff and re-install it after complete the upgrade. Do I need to do this with IVTV/LIRC/VIDEO4LINUX modules also???? My system is quite the interesting Frankensystem right now. A mix of roughly equal numbers of FC5 and FC8 RPMS. B^) I was even able to reboot it back up after failing the DVD upgrade. Everything came back up, apache, sendmail (and its milters), ntp, mythtv, etc. What a mess F8 is. I blame it on the short 6 month development cycle. (Even with the extra testing release.) Any ideas? [I had similar problems with my FC3 to FC5 upgrade, but the CD upgrade to FC5 ended up being successfuly.] -- Kevin J. Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
