Re: [SLUG] RPM complaints while trying to install XFree86 4.2.0

[Martin <marty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

$author = "lukekendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ;
> 
> But when I try to install them I get this:
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         kernel-drm = 4.2.0 is needed by XFree86-4.2.0-52.01
>         XFree86 <= 4.2.0-3.1 conflicts with XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-52.01
> 
> My real question is, what does the XFree86 error mean?  Where is
> 4.2.0-3.1 coming from?  I'm installing 4.2.0-52, as far as I can see.

what was the old version of XFree you had installed?

i would think that when the new XFree package balks on the drm dependency,
the new base-fonts still tries to install but decides it can't with the
current XFree...


> Those were old RH-supplied RPM kernel upgrades.  I'm not running any of
> them - I'm running 2.4.18 and as of tonight, 2.4.19.

did you compile those kernels yourself? i'd say that redhat patched their
kernel tree with the drm module code. if you used a kernel.org tree it might
not have the drm code...

hth
marty

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