Yum Upgrade Faq

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dimi Paun wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 03:07 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
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>>okay - just run:
>>yum upgrade
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>>and see what it does.
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>I'm having a bit of a problem too:
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>[root at dimi ~]# rpm -e kernel-utils
>--> Processing Dependency: kernel-utils for package: kernel-smp
>--> Processing Dependency: kernel-utils for package: kernel
>--> Processing Dependency: kernel-utils for package: kernel
>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-utils is needed by package kernel
>Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-utils is needed by package kernel-smp
>
>Here are the details:
>
>[root at dimi ~]# rpm -q kernel-utils
>kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3
>[root at dimi ~]# rpm -e kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3
>error: Failed dependencies:
>   kernel-utils is needed by (installed) lm_sensors-2.8.7-2.i386
>   kernel-utils is needed by (installed) kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.i686
>   kernel-utils is needed by (installed) kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686
>   kernel-utils is needed by (installed) kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686
>
>Why is kernel-2.6.11 dependent on kernel-utils-2.4.13 I don't know...
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Its documented well in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

regards
Rahul