[ATrpms-users] Can't -Uvh kmdl files

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 05:33:07PM -0500, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to update my kernel and kmdl files on my
> FC4 x86_64 install but its not going through:

Be careful with using -U on kernels! It will remove the kernel you are
currently running! Better install the kernel with -i (as well as the
kmdls), boot into them and then remove the old bits.

Also for removing a kernel - be it as a single operation by itself or
combined into -U (because that's what -U is, -i on the new parts and
-e on the old ones) - you need to remove all the parts that depend on
it, e.g. all the old kmdls.

Better use a dependency solver like smart/yum/apt that will automate
most of the work. E.g. removing a kernel in any of these will
automatically cater for removing the old kmdls for that kernel.

> [root at localhost DriverInstall]# rpm -Uvh
> alsa-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-1.0.13-56.fc4.at.x86_64.rpm
> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-0.7.1-118.fc4.at.x86_64.rpm
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-0.8.1-63_cvs20060930.fc4.at.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm
> warning: kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.x86_64.rpm: Header
> V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         kernel = 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-0.4.3-106.rhfc4.at.x86_64
>         kernel = 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> alsa-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.0.10-44.rhfc4.at.x86_64
>         kernel = 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc4.at.x86_64
>         /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-0.4.3-106.rhfc4.at.x86_64
>         /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> alsa-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.0.10-44.rhfc4.at.x86_64
>         /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 is needed by
> (installed)
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc4.at.x86_64
> 
> 
> This is really confusing me if I am updating both the
> kernel and kmdl files at the same time, shouldn't the
> error messages be suppressed?  Is the order of the
> packages in the rpm command important?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Beny
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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