dependency hell, version 2,197,386.1

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 08:47, seth vidal wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 15:56 +1000, Stuart Low wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> > How can I go about convincing yum to update the iptables install on
>> > my old firewall box when it reports this:
>> > [root at gene etc]# yum update iptables
>> > package iptables needs kernel that has been excluded
>> > package iptables needs kernel that has been excluded
>> > The kernel is in fact a 2.4.29, obviously new enough but locally
>> > built. Is this a case where the --nodeps --force options to rpm can
>> > be used?
>>
>> Probably not the smartest move. Be best to manually download the
>> latest kernel rpm and rpm -ivh it. Then modify your lilo/grub config
>> back to booting your custom kernel by default.
>>
>> That way you've avoided the dep issue but haven't lost your custom
>> kernel.
>
>when yum updates kernels it does not remove the older kernels. So
>there's no danger in yum installing the kernel for you.
>
>-sv

In addition to the previous concern, I thought I'd do that same end run
on this box, which is normally running the latest mainline, like
2.6.14-rc5 ATM.

But when rpm was installing the modules, it got a tummy ache as follows:

Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:kernel                 ###########################################
[100%]
[long delay here]
Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.771_FC2/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.13.1/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.13.1.old/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap
/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-16/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc1/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc2/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc3/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc3-kj1/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc4/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc4.old/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc5/build/./include/config/MARKER

Failed to mmap ./include/config/MARKER

[root at coyote FC2]#
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So what is that all about?

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