On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:19 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb seth vidal:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:06 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > # yum update
> > >
> > > Dependencies Resolved
> > >
> > > =======================================================================
> > >====== Package                 Arch       Version          Repository   
> > >     Size
> > > =======================================================================
> > >====== Installing:
> > >  kernel-pae              i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head       
> > > 22 M replacing  kernel-bigsmp.i586 2.6.18.8-0.5
> > >
> > >  kernel-source           i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head       
> > > 50 M kernel-syms             i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head   
> > >    1.3 M Installing for dependencies:
> > >  kernel-bigsmp           i586       2.6.18.2-34      base              
> > > 18 M
> > >
> > > Transaction Summary
> > > =======================================================================
> > >====== Install      4 Package(s)
> > > Update       0 Package(s)
> > > Remove       0 Package(s)
> > >
> > > Total download size: 92 M
> > > Is this ok [y/N]:
> > >
> > > It's not, off cause.
> > >
> > > Even if kernel-pae does the usual provides/obsoletes kernel-bigsmp,
> > > shouldn't that be ignored in the installonlypkgs case? It doesn't make
> > > much sense in my book. Needless to say, the replacement is arbitrary:
> >
> > it looks like kernel-pae is obsoleting kernel-bigsmp but you still have
> > a dangling requirement that kernel-pae isn't providing. So yum is,
> > correctly, pulling in the only thing available for it.
> 
> Well, if that's the case, then yum should replace all kernel-bigsmp 
> packages, not just an arbitrary one, but I cannot find any reason, why it 
> should do this at all, if the package is in _installonly_ mode. At least, 
> this is how I understand such a mode.
> 
> > This looks like kernel-pae is not adequately providing what it is
> > obsoleting.
> 
> Hmm, all it obsoletes, it also provides:
> Provides:     k_smp4G kernel-bigsmp
> Obsoletes:    k_smp4G kernel-bigsmp
> 

Can you give me a dump of the requires from the nvidia pkg which drug
kernel-bigsmp back in?

-sv


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