Problems upgrading mkinitrd, oprofile

[Rick Stevens]

VB wrote (reformatted for bottom-posting):
> --- Rick Stevens <rstevens at 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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