On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jan Kundrát wrote:
Dear list,
I've hit the following issue on a 5.2 box. When trying to run `yum
update kernel`, yum wants to remove quite a lot of items:
...
---> Package xfs.x86_64 0:0.4-1.el5 set to be erased
...
I guess the problem is related to using the "xfs" string for both the
XFS kernel module and also the X Font Server. See below:
...
So, the problem is that xorg-x11-server-Xorg, which depends on
xorg-x11-fonts-base, which depends on chkfontpath, depends on "xfs":
...
If you manually install xorg-x11-xfs (and remove xfs) that should then let
the dependency checker work ok (xorg-x11-xfs would probably have been
accidentally removed when xfs was installed...)
You only need xfs to pull in the right kernel-module-xfs packages.
The xfs metapackage was renamed in sl53 to avoid this problem, it became
xfs-filesystem, though it will only be needed on i386 machines or with
older kernels since TUV included xfs support for x84_64 starting with
EL5.4...
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