On Tuesday 26 August 2003 10:26 pm, Paul Misner wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:12 am, Juan Quintela wrote: > > > > My understanding is that when one package replaces other, this is > > enough: > > > > Obsoletes: kernel-utils > > Provides: kernel-utils > > > > I think that the problem was the _manual_ installation of > > installkernel after bootloader-utils. > > > > Fred, do I need to add a Conflicts tag, or removing kernel-utils from > > the repository should be enough? > > > > Later, Juan. > > My only manual install of kernel-utils was when it was broken out some time > back, since urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-uninstall didn't install it at > that time. That was when everyone was seeing no mkinitrd. > > Evidently I wasn't the only one to see an issue, but it may have been a > transient condition on the cooker (or my mirror) that allowed it to happen. > Since I generally update every evening, I tend to experience more than my > share of those. > > As long as it's not a widespread problem, I've uninstalled kernel-utils, > and installed bootloader-utils again (with a rpm -ivh --force), so > hopefully I won't be seeing that problem again. Thanks for clarifying > things. > > Paul Misner
Another note on this issue. With the following packages installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -q kernel-utils package kernel-utils is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -q bootloader-utils bootloader-utils-1.3-1mdk I still get the error message ------ ln: invalid option -- o Try `ln --help' for more information. ------ when installing the 2.4.22-1mdk kernel release. As you can see, I have the proper tools installed now, at least as far as I can determine. Someplace in the install process a bad command line is getting sent to ln. It appears that it is removing all of the existing /lib/modules/2.4.XXX/build links, for the previously installed kernels, and not putting the proper link on the current kernel being installed, almost like kversion in the scripts was being set to a wildcard (if that would even work, I'm not knowledgable on perl). Any knowledge about what might be happening or how I might find out would be appreciated. Right now my network connection is really bad (hopefully fixed this Saturday), so I don't know when I'll get this email transmitted. If I could, I'd download the latest ISOs, but my connection is very intermittent. Paul Misner
