From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: I have a laptop running RHEL WS 3.0 with all the updates applied except the most recent kernel patch. The RedHat icon always shows as having outstanding patches waiting (red icon), but the only patch available is a kernel patch which I can't apply. This appears to be related to this particular patch being released (which I installed) and then re-released with the same name/version number, so it is conflicting with itself when I try to install it. When I load the up2date client, I get a notification that the following package needs to be updated: Package Name: kernel Version: 2.4.21-4.0.1E Old Version: 2.4.21-4.0.1E Arch: i686 Size: 6992 kB Channel: rhel-i386-ws-3 When I try to install it, I get an error saying: "Test install failed because of package conflicts: package kernel-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL is already installed" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This will be tricky to reproduce.. I got into this situtation by installing the kernel-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL update when it was initially released and then having the up2date client pick it up again when it was re-released, but be unable to installed it since it has the same name/version and thus conflicts with the original release. For me, I can reproduce it by going into the up2date client and trying to update the kernel pacakge. Actual Results: Test install failed because of package conflicts: package kernel-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL is already installed Expected Results: Either the package shouldn't be listed in up2date as needing to be installed or it should install correctly. Additional info:
Created attachment 96753 [details] A list of RPMs currently installed on my system Output from "rpm -qa --last" I believe the only RPM that wasn't installed with up2date or the initial installer was the most recent mozilla-mail RPM. Everything else was installed by default or installed as errata from RHN.
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed. For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed information on how this bug is affecting you.