[CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing

Wed May 7 15:50:46 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at bppiac.hu> wrote:
> there is something wrong with the current packages in the testing repo:
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>  # yum install --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-testing kvm kmod-kvm
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Loading "downloadonly" plugin
>  Loading "priorities" plugin
>  Setting up Install Process
>  Setting up repositories
>  Reading repository metadata in from local files
>  0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>  Parsing package install arguments
>  Resolving Dependencies
>  --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>  ---> Package kvm.x86_64 0:66-1 set to be updated
>  ---> Package kmod-kvm.x86_64 0:66-1.2.6.18_53.1.14.el5 set to be installed
>  ---> Package kmod-kvm.x86_64 0:44-1.2.6.18_8.1.14.el5 set to be installed
>  --> Running transaction check
>  --> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 for package:
> kmod-kvm
>  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>  Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 is needed by
> package kmod-kvm
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>  you see the kernel version 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
>                                  ^^^
>  and don't know why yum try to install kvm-44 too?

Hmmm... I just tried the same command on a CentOS-5 x86_64 machine
running the 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel.  It worked just fine.

# yum install --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-testing kvm kmod-kvm
(snip)
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kvm.x86_64 0:66-1 set to be updated
---> Package kmod-kvm.x86_64 0:66-1.2.6.18_53.1.14.el5 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kmod-kvm                x86_64     66-1.2.6.18_53.1.14.el5
c5-testing        701 k
 kvm                     x86_64     66-1             c5-testing        1.0 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

-Akemi