Re: Problems upgrading mkinitrd, oprofile

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

VB wrote (reformatted for bottom-posting):
> --- Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
>
> > VB wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to update to mkinitrd 3.5.15.1-2 and
> > > oprofile 0.5.4-3 but get the following:
> > >
> > > file /usr/share/man/man8/lvchange.8.gz from
> >
> > install of
> >
> > > lvm2-2.00.08-2
> > > conflicts with file from package lvm-1.0.3-12
> > > (... same type of message repeated with a lot of
> >
> > other
> >
> > > conflicts ...)
> > >
> > > **this is when I try to install the lvm2 rpm
> >
> > (which
> >
> > > mkinitrd complains as needing) **
> > >
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > >        libdb-4.1.so is needed by oprofile-0.5.4-3
> > >
> > > ** this is when I try to install the oprofile rpm
> >
> > **
> >
> > > Could somebody please point me in the right
> >
> > direction?
> >
> > It would have been nice if you had told use what
> > version of OS you're
> > running.  It appears that you're running FC1, since
> > the latest libdb4
> > for RH 9 is 4.0.
> >
> > You need to update or install the db4 devel RPMs to
> > satisfy oprofile:
> >
> > 	"yum update db4-devel" OR "yum install db4-devel" 
> > (via yum)
> > 	"rpm -Uvh db4-devel*.rpm" (after downloading)     
> > (via RPM)
> >
> > If upgrading/installing oprofile via "rpm", you need
> > to add the
> > "--force" option to the command.  Yumshould sort
> > that out for you
> > automagically.
>
> Yeah, it would have been nice...forgot.  I'm using RH9
> ("stock", installed off of downloaded ISOs). Should I
> use the --force option for lvm2 also? I'm not sure how
> the conflicts between lvm and lvm2 should be handled. 

You should bottom-post in the future, VB.

You can do the "--force" for lvm2 to resolve the dependency issue.
That's a glitch in the new RPM and only affects the documents in
/usr/share/doc.

Uh, you'll need to downgrade your oprofile stuff as Red Hat hasn't
released a db4 or db4-devel RPM with libdb-4.1.so.  That's only
available for Fedora Core.  Should you wish to try to update to the
Fedora version, ftp://mirrors.kernel.org has links to them:

/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/db4-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm
/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/db4-devel-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm
/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/db4-java-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm
/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/db4-utils-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm

They should work, but I won't guarantee it.
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