[18030] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.7: kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shamik Das)
Mon Jul 24 14:45:17 2000
Message-Id: <200007241845.OAA11423@therac-25.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:30:30 EDT."
<200007212130.RAA01097@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:45:13 -0400
From: Shamik Das <shamikd@MIT.EDU>
% rpm -q initscripts
initscripts-5.00-1
% rpm -q --requires initscripts
mingetty
/bin/awk
/bin/sed
mktemp
e2fsprogs >= 1.15
console-tools
procps >= 2.0.4
modutils >= 2.1.121
sysklogd >= 1.3.31
setup >= 2.0.3
/sbin/fuser
which
/sbin/chkconfig
/usr/sbin/groupadd
gawk
/bin/sh
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
/bin/bash
/bin/sh
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
% rpm -q raidtools
raidtools-0.90-6
% rpm -q --requires raidtools
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> > Beginning update from 8.4.7 to 8.4.8 at Fri Jul 21 15:43:33 EDT 2000.
> > Update would break dependencies:
> > kernel < 2.2 conflicts with raidtools-0.90-6
> > kernel <= 2.2 conflicts with initscripts-5.00-1
>
> Well, rpmupdate is doing exactly what I expected, but those
> dependencies are very odd. The kernel RPM should not be < 2.2
> (possibly <= 2.2, depending on how comparisons are done), and neither
> the raidtools nor the initscripts RPM appear to have those
> dependencies in the redhat-6.2 RPMs in the athena or dev cells.
>
> Please send the output of:
>
> rpm -q initscripts
> rpm -q --requires initscripts
> rpm -q raidtools
> rpm -q --requires raidtools
