Re: Best way to solve dependency issue

Robert Sturrock <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi YUMers,
>
> I have a small dependency issue involving yum under RHEL5, and I'm
> seeking some advice about the best way to resolve it.
>
> I recently began mirroring a small external yum repository containing
> OpenAFS packages, using reposync.  This seems to work fine.  However,
> this repository contains a number of kmod- rpms built against the
> various RHEL kernels, and some of them are _newer_ than the current
> kernel in the base repository.
>
> My problem is that presently the "highest" kernel in the base
> RHEL5 repository is:
>
>     kernel-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5
>
> .. but the OpenAFS repository contains:
>
>     kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.18.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> ie. a ".18" module when my kernel is only ".17".
>
> The repository of course also contains the older modules:
>
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.17.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.13.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> Hence, whenever I try to run a "yum update", I get this broken
> dependency:

 Run: yum update -x kmod-openafs-1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.18.el5
 Until the repo. gets fixed.

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