[OpenAFS] latest kmod-openafs 1.61 for RHEL5 breaks update

Stephan Wiesand stephan.wiesand@desy.de
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:54:49 +0100


Hallo Berthold,

On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:30 , Berthold Cogel <cogel@uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The latest kmod in RHEL 5 tree for i386 breaks the update process:

well, Fedora style kmods are broken by design.

> yum list |grep kmod-openafs
> ...
> kmod-openafs.i686                  1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5.centos.plus

I guess you're not running the centosplus kernel?

yum -x '*centos.pl*' update kmod-openafs

Maybe we shouldn't upload modules for such kernel variants.

- Stephan

> kmod-openafs-PAE.i686              1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5
> kmod-openafs-xen.i686              1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5
> 
> yum update openafs kmod-openafs
> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
> This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kmod-openafs.i686 0:1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5.centos.plus
> set to be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.centos.plus
> for package: kmod-openafs
> 
> ....
> 
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> kmod-openafs-1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5.centos.plus.i686 from openafs
> has depsolving problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.centos.plus
> is needed by package
> kmod-openafs-1.6.1-1.2.6.18_348.1.1.el5.centos.plus.i686 (openafs)
> 
> 
> Same thing on x86_64...

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Stephan Wiesand
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