Bug 458907

There is nothing that conflict with kernel-smp in the iwl4965-firmware side.
This conflict should be explained in the kernel side. (will re-assign to the kernel once problem is found)

can you run (with the old iwl4965-firmware)
yum update --verbose

Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Config time: 0.379
Yum Version: 3.2.17
COMMAND: yum update --verbose 
Installroot: /
Reading Local RPMDB
rpmdb time: 0.001
Setting up Package Sacks
pkgsack time: 4.249
Setting up Update Process
Building updates object
up:Obs Init time: 1.501
putting python-genshi in complex update
putting kernel-smp in complex update
processing python-genshi
processing kernel-smp.ppc
up:simple updates time: 0.513
up:obs time: 0.014
up:condense time: 0.000
updates time: 6.626
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-smp.ppc 0:2.6.25.14-108.fc9 set to be installed
Checking deps for kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'/bin/sh', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'/bin/sh', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'module-init-tools', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'initscripts', u'GE', (u'0', u'8.11.1', u'1')) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'fileutils', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
looking for (u'mkinitrd', u'GE', (u'0', u'6.0.39', u'1')) as a requirement of kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25.14-108.fc9 - i
--> Processing Conflict: kernel-smp conflicts iwl4965-firmware < 228.57.2
kernel-smp conflicts with iwl4965-firmware
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependency Process ending
kernel-smp-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.ppc from updates has depsolving problems
  --> kernel-smp conflicts with iwl4965-firmware
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-smp.ppc 0:2.6.25-14.fc9 set to be erased
Checking deps for kernel-smp.ppc 0-2.6.25-14.fc9 - e
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependency Process ending
Depsolve time: 6.003

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-smp              ppc        2.6.25.14-108.fc9  updates            20 M
Removing:
 kernel-smp              ppc        2.6.25-14.fc9    installed          53 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       1 Package(s)         

Total size: 20 M

@Linville

Any reason why we have Conflicts instead of Requires ?

I don't think I added that line, and I don't know enough about RPM to explain the difference between Conflicts and Requires anyway.

Any reason not to just update the iwl4965-firmware?

*** Bug 459097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 459799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Sorry, I should have answered quicker.

As i remember there is no iwl4965.ko driver on recent ppc(64) kernel. Thus we decided to ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64 both iwl4965-firmware and the newly introduced iwl5000-firmware.

It could be "possible" to have iwl4965/iwl5000 kernel module to work on ppc. But as the module isn't built anymore on Fedora ppc kernels (confirmed ?). It doesn't really make sense to have Conflicts to the iwl*-firmware on ppc(64) kernels.

Now i don't know if this won't lead to a problem while talking about comps.xml. At least I think this was architecture agnostic last time I 've checked.

Maybe it will be easier to reintroduce iwl*-firmware for ppc, (even if there is no kernel module). So, I will follow advices here...

I would suggest adding the package back for Fedora-9 ppc, but not for rawhide, this will enable all F-9 users to install important updates again without having to understand about this bug, though it might prevent automated updates from F-9 to F-10.

Alternatively, you could put the Conflicts: in the kernel spec file into '%ifnarch ppc ppc64', or even '%ifarch %{x86}'.

Those wireless drivers are back in the rawhide ppc kernel as of the next build.

An updated iwl4965-firmware will be re-introduced in the ppc/ppc64 repositories then (along with the new iwl500-firmware).

iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.21-1.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.21-1.1

Hi There
I have seen a similar error in my new installation of FC9, I enclose the complete error message for everyone to see.
I will add I am new to Fedora, I am no Linux guru either, but am not afraid of getting my hands dirty if I need to.

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
iwl4965-firmware conflicts with kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
libpackagekit.so.3 is needed by gnome-packagekit-0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.i386

Please note I am running an AMD64 CPU with lots of memory, this is a workstation not a laptop, everything is relatively ordinary with the whole install, I did also choose KDE, I prefer it.

Best regards to all

Simon
Kent, UK

Hi There
I have seen a similar error in my new installation of FC9, I enclose the complete error message for everyone to see.
I will add I am new to Fedora, I am no Linux guru either, but am not afraid of getting my hands dirty if I need to.

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
iwl4965-firmware conflicts with kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
libpackagekit.so.3 is needed by gnome-packagekit-0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.i386

Please note I am running an AMD64 CPU with lots of memory, this is a workstation not a laptop, everything is relatively ordinary with the whole install, I did also choose KDE, I prefer it.

Best regards to all

Simon
Kent, UK

iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.21-1.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update iwl4965-firmware'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7802

*** Bug 462310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.21-1.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.