[TriLUG] was: updating multiple systems at once w/ yum; now: upgrading kernel to 2.6 test, can't using yum

[Rob_Lockhart]

Magnus Hedemark wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Glen Ford wrote:
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>>wouldn't it be nice if something like 'yum' would just magically upgrade 
>>2.4 based servers to 2.6.2 servers?
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>It probably could.
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>Have you tried adding this to your yum.conf?
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>[kernel-2.6]
>name=Red Hat Linux 2.6 Test Kernel
>baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/
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>Then do a "yum upgrade".
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>Often when things like this don't work it's due to the .spec writer making 
>unsafe assumptions and leaving out certain key requirements.  Yum only 
>works with what it is given.  Garbage in, garbage out.
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I got the following message when trying to upgrade RedHat 9:

# yum upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for RHL9/rawhide
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Finding obsoleted packages
Resolving dependencies
......identical dependency loop exceeded
package oprofile needs libdb-4.1.so (not provided)


Doing a google search on libdb-4.1 provided some links, but I'm a little 
hesitant to try anything untested.

Note that all other updates to RH9 have completed, as confirmed by 
up2date as well.

I see it may have something to do with Apache PHP requirements??