I was trying to bring my system up to date with cooker today and found
the following dependancy breakage:

kernel >= 2.2.5 is needed by nfs-utils-0.1.6-1mdk

Yet I have several packages providing kernel >= 2.2.5

$ rpm -q --whatprovides kernel=2.2.14
kernel-fb-2.2.14-15mdk
kernel-fb-2.2.14-15mdk
kernel-fb-2.2.14-15bjm
kernel-fb-2.2.14-17bjm
$ rpm -q --whatprovides kernel=2.2.15
kernel-fb-2.2.15-0.7mdk
kernel-fb-2.2.15-0.7mdk
kernel-fb-2.2.15-0.7mdk

Including my current running kernel:

$ uname -r
2.2.14-17bjmfb
$ rpm -q --provides kernel-fb-2.2.14-17bjm  
kernel=2.2.14  
module-info  

Why does rpm fail to recognize all of those packages providing kernel >=
2.2.5?  This problem exists for more packages than just nfs-utils.

b.


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Brian J. Murrell                              InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
North Vancouver, B.C.                                             604 983 UNIX
        Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD

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