On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Connie Sieh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Alex Finch wrote:

>>> --> Processing Conflict: kmod-fglrx conflicts module-init-tools =
>>> 3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea of how I should fix it?
>>
>> You need to update module-init-tools to a later version.  This version is in
>> fastbugs.
>>
>>  yum --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs update module-init-tools
>>
>> -Connie Sieh
>
> And updating to SL 5.7 would be a good idea, in general. Anytime you
> start bringing in repositories from another repo or source, it's
> unfair to rely on it to be compatible with an out of date release of
> other system software.

The reason why module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5 triggered
'Conflict' is because that particular version of module-init-tools has
a bug and causes issues with kmod packages:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593504

So, as far as that version is avoided, ELRepo kmods should work fine
in any release of SL they are built for.

Akemi

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