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:
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-openafs.x86_64 0:1.4.8-1.1.2.6.18_92.1.18.el5 set to be installed
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 for package: kmod-openafs
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 is needed by package kmod-openafs
I have looked at the various yum plugins that are available, but I
can't find one that quite caters for this scenario.
What I would _like_ to happen is for my systems to update "kernel" to
the latest available version in the RHEL5 repo, and then choose
whichever kmod-openafs matches this kernel version and install that.
Any ideas about how I might achieve this?
Or alternatively, one approach might be to drop any packages from my
openafs repository that have broken dependencies, so that they are not
"visible".
Regards,
Robert.
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