upgrade: puzzling conflict message

[StefanJ]

I poked around the archives for similar cases, but couldn't find a match to this problem.

I'm upgrading my MythTV box's Fedora 7 install prior to upgrading MythTV itself. Right now it's happily running:

[root@mythtv ~]# echo $KVER
2.6.22.5-76.fc7

I disabled atrpms and freshrpms by editing their repos.d files. I also have protectbase installed. Here is what yum can access right now:

[root@mythtv ~]# yum repolist
Loading "protectbase" plugin
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled
fedora Fedora 7 - i386 enabled
livna Livna for Fedora Core 7 - i386 - Base enabled
updates Fedora 7 - i386 - Updates enabled

I ran 'yum clean all'
'yum upgrade' checks what it needs to upgrade, checks dependencies, downloads the 360 of so files, and gets to the point where it runs a transaction test. Then it spews hundreds of messages like the following:

file /lib/modules/2.6.23.15-80.fc7/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-
seq.ko conflicts between attempted installs of kernel-2.6.23.15
-80.fc7 and kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7

Huh? There's a conflict between two installs of the same kernel?

I'm guessing that I haven't trimmed my repository list enough . . . are there any there that should go?

Also, earlier on when I DID have freshrpms installed, it had trouble finding the online repository information. Has this changed? Should I even bother with freshrpms?

Thanks,

Stefan

[StefanJ]

I tried this again with livna disabled. Fewer packages downloaded, but same results: lots of messages complaining about conflicts between A and A.

DUH! My bad. I had copied the disable atrmps line twice. When I disabled livna, things went much better. I'm down to removing old libraries and their dependencies . . . old Myth related stuff it appears. Later I'll reenable atrpms and get the latest versions back.

[StefanJ]

I thought I would complete this thread for the benefit of others.

Disabling livna was the key. After that, there was just the removal of a few leftover bits of MythTV to allow the upgrade to complete.

Then I had to RE enable livna, since it was the only repository with the kmod-nvidia package for the new kernel.

And then reenable atrpms to get MythTV.

Whew.