Hi,
We tried to install the lastest kernel update kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6
and due to
an odd chain of dependencies, all openafs packages were removed.
On our systems, we only keep 2 kernels (as opposed to the default of 3).
So we have
kernels:
# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64
and openafs packages:
openafs.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6
@sl/6.2
openafs-client.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6
@sl/6.2
openafs-krb5.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6
@sl/6.2
openafs-module-tools.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6
@sl-security/6.2
kmod-openafs.noarch 1.6.2-4.SL64.el6
@sl-security/6.2
kmod-openafs-279.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6.279
@sl-security/6.2
kmod-openafs-358.x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6.358.0.1
@sl-security/6.2
When the kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1 packages install (due to
installonly_limit=2 in our yum.conf), the
"279" kernel is removed and that triggers the removal of
kmod-openafs-279. That seems to trigger
the removal of kmod-openafs and THAT triggers the removal of
kmod-openafs-358.
All this seems to trigger the removal of openafs-client and that leads
to local afs-depend
packages to be removed (usrlocalITbin). The output from a yum upgrade
follows:
# yum update kernel
Loaded plugins: aliases, priorities, product-id, protectbase,
refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
1427 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-firmware >= 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 for
package: kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-358.2.1.el6 will be updated
---> Package kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 will be an
update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 will be erased
--> Processing Dependency: kernel(do_settimeofday) = 0x5603cf43 for
package: kmod-openafs-279-1.6.2-0.144.sl6.279.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-openafs-279.x86_64 0:1.6.2-0.144.sl6.279 will be
erased
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-openafs-279 for package:
kmod-openafs-1.6.2-4.SL64.el6.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-openafs.noarch 0:1.6.2-4.SL64.el6 will be erased
--> Processing Dependency: openafs-kernel >= 1.6 for package:
openafs-client-1.6.2-0.144.sl6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package openafs-client.x86_64 0:1.6.2-0.144.sl6 will be erased
--> Processing Dependency: openafs-client >= 1.6 for package:
kmod-openafs-358-1.6.2-0.144.sl6.358.0.1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: openafs-client for package:
usrlocalITbin-6.0-el6.bucs.1.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-openafs-358.x86_64 0:1.6.2-0.144.sl6.358.0.1 will be
erased
---> Package usrlocalITbin.noarch 0:6.0-el6.bucs.1 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
====================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
====================================================================================================================================
Installing:
kernel x86_64
2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 sl-security
26 M
Removing:
kernel x86_64
2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 @sl-security/6.2
113 M
Updating for dependencies:
kernel-firmware noarch
2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 sl-security
11 M
Removing for dependencies:
kmod-openafs noarch 1.6.2-4.SL64.el6
@sl-security/6.2 0.0
kmod-openafs-279 x86_64
1.6.2-0.144.sl6.279 @sl-security/6.2
1.3 M
kmod-openafs-358 x86_64
1.6.2-0.144.sl6.358.0.1 @sl-security/6.2
1.3 M
openafs-client x86_64 1.6.2-0.144.sl6
@sl/6.2 2.4 M
usrlocalITbin noarch 6.0-el6.bucs.1
@cs/6.1 391
Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 1 Package(s)
Remove 6 Package(s)
Total download size: 37 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
People may not see this behavior this time around if they are defaulting
to keeping
three kernels installed, but it will sure hit everyone with the next
kernel update.
-Joe Szep
