From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.14 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20040503 Description of problem: The smart mon tools should be separated from kernel-utils as it is a separatly developed program and is not really a "kernel-util" anyway.. it's a Harddrive monitoring tool. IT also makes it a *pain* to upgrade to a newer smartmontools.sf.net release when other packages depend on kenrel-utils for the other apps provided in that package.
Edward, I totally agree. This is a copy of a long-standing bug report/request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108569 Meanwhile, to upgrade to current smartmontools releases, use -Uvh --force or -ivh --force to overwrite the kernel-utils smartmontools files. Cheers, Bruce
I never --force RPMS.. screws up the dependencies when using any dep manager (up2date, yum, or apt-get) I personally use the latter (apt) and usually rebuild the RPMS if I need them fixed the right way. Marking as a dup and adding my comments to the other bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108569 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.