[rhn-users] Cant update packages after upgrade from RHE4 to RHE5

[Darek Czarkowski]

inode0 wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Darek Czarkowski <dczarkowski at infinitesource.ca> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope someone can help me out with my problem. I understand that
>> up2date is no longer available in version 5. After upgrading a
>> workstation from RHE4 to RHE5 number of packages can not be updated
>> because of circular reference to the same version of package. I am using
>> yum as the alternate to up2date, and this software is unable to resolve
>> references.
>> Is there anything than can be done other than removing the packages and
>> installing them clean? Some of the packages like gcc, have a lot of
>> dependencies that would be removed.
>
> Might it be that you aren't subscribed to all the child channels that
> you need now? Maybe login to RHN and check your channel subscriptions
> to make sure that is ok first.
>
> John
>
Thank you John, and Hiren for suggestions. Adding child channels to the 
base channel has fixed the problem.
 

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Darek C