[kernel-xen] Updating kernel fails if kernel-xen-3.6.9-3 is installed

[Steven Haigh]

On 20/12/2012 11:15 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> Apparently upgrading to kernel-xen-3.6.9-3.el6xen.x86_64 and
> kernel-xen-firmware-3.6.9-3.el6xen.x86_64 breaks stock kernel
> upgrades.
>
> [root at xen01 ~]# rpm -qa kernel*| sort
> kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
> kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
> kernel-xen-3.6.3-1.el6xen.x86_64
> kernel-xen-3.6.9-3.el6xen.x86_64
> kernel-xen-firmware-3.6.9-3.el6xen.x86_64
> kernel-xen-release-6-4.noarch

Hmmmm - I didn't catch this case in my testing. You can safely remove 
kernel-*2.6.32* from your system and everything will still work now.

It seems that kernel needs kernel-firmware, which is in fact replaced by 
kernel-xen-firmware. Now as kernel-xen-firmware obsoletes 
kernel-firmware as well as some other firmware packages (so they don't 
conflict), it leaves us with no kernel-firmware which kernel is wanting.

Hmmmm.

This may be able to be fixed by having a Provides: kernel-firmware in 
the kernel-xen spec for the kernel-xen-firmware package - however I'm 
not sure if you can have both a provides and an obsoletes - as that 
seems strange logic. I'll talk to some of the #rpm guys to discuss this 
as a package manager thing - but as of yet, you can either remove the 
stock kernel or use skip-broken for the meantime.

I'll also be looking at getting kernel 3.7.1 running tomorrow. I'll try 
to get all the fixes out in one release to ease things.

--
Steven Haigh

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