Re: Failed dependency with yum?

laredotornado@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


Sam, I just want to express my sincere appreciation for your help
during this process. I updated the kernel as per your suggestion and
autofs installed fine after.

My remaining, non-critical questions are, when I last ran "yum
update", why didn't the kernel package get updated?

Recall that yum removed the autofs package on its own. That package conflicted with your existing kernel. yum chose to resolve this packaging conflict by removing the autofs package. This is because yum is set up not to remove existing kernel packages when installing newer kernels (unless you have an optional yum plugin). The conflict would not be resolved by installing the new kernel, since the old, conflicting kernel would remain. So the only way to remove the conflict is to nuke the autofs package. Which is what yum did initially.

And lastly, am I now ready to upgrade to Fedora Core 8? This would
have to be a yum upgrade as I do not have access to the machine
directly to run CD-ROMs on.

This is technically possible, but not advisable. There are ways to upgrade without needing a CD-ROM (I do it all the time).

Before upgrading -- no matter how you go about it -- your existing partitions (including the swap partition) must be labeled (new requirement in FC7). Your /etc/fstab must identify all partitions by label, not by /dev path. If you try to do this via yum, it'll happily upgrade everything, and you'll end up with an unbootable brick. The F8 installer makes sure that this doesn't happen, and verifies that all your partitions are properly labeled.

If you know what you're doing, and know all the gotchas, you can upgrade using yum. But you don't, so you shouldn't. Ask yourself: are you certain that you'll be able to fix whatever's broken if, after the update, the machine won't boot. Unless the answer is "yes", don't do this. Let the installer do its job.

Anyway, you should subscribe to the fedora list, and ask for help (if you need to) regarding labeling your existing partitions, and how to upgrade without using a CD-ROM. Generally, if your machine can boot off a USB stick, there's a way you can do that. Another option is to take a Fedora 8 DVD and mount it on another machine on the same network, set up Apache to access the contents of the DVD on the second machine, then copy /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz and /images/pxeboot/initrd.img off the Fedora DVD into the first machine's /boot, add a manual entry for this pseudo-kernel and initrd image to your grub.conf, reboot, choose this boot entry to start the Fedora 8 installer, then select the option to do an network install via HTTP.


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