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

[lukekendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On  1 Sep, Martin wrote:
>  $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?

4.1.0

>  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...

But one of the packages being installed is the new XFree86 ...
 
> > 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...

Yep, compiled myself.  The kernel.org stuff does have the kernel-drm
stuff (apparently it's had it for quite a while, from what I've read). 
But I suspect that unless the kernels are supplied via rpm, the rpm
database doesn't know what you have.

We'll see how I go.

Thanks,

luke