Yum dependancy problem with ipw2200 firmware

[William Hooper]

kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
> All;
>
>
> when I run a yum update I get the following: # yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>  macromedia                100% |=========================|  903 B
> 00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>  base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> 00:00
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>  Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 172 kB    00:01
>  updates-re: ################################################## 485/485
> Added 0 new packages, deleted 11 old in 1.44 seconds
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package ipw2200-firmware.noarch 0:2.3-2.fc set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: ipw2200-firmware = 2.2 for package:
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: ipw2200-firmware = 2.2 is needed by package
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
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> If I run an rpm-qa | grep ipw I see that I have v2.2.5 of the firmware
> installed:

Read closer.  Yum wants to upgrade to "ipw2200-firmware.noarch
0:2.3-2.fc", but can't because your ipw2200-kmdl version requires the
older 2.2 version.

> # rpm -qa | grep ipw
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-1.0.0-23.rhfc4.at
> ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at
> ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc4.at

I see all of your ipw2200 files appear to come from atrpms, but you don't
have atrpms enabled.  IIUC (which I don't have a ipw card, so take that
into account) all you need for the newer kernels is the firmware, because
the driver is in the distro kernel.  Check what kernel version you are
running and if it isn't 2.6.11-1.1369, it is probably safe to remove the
ipw2200-kmdl RPM.

Another option would be to enable the atrpms repo and try the update. 
Either way it looks like freshrpms and atrpms have conflicting packages
that should probably be reported to their appropriate list.

-- 
William Hooper