firstly, this may not be the right place to report this - if not, my apologies, advice on a better place would be welcome. i figured i'd start here even tho apt-rpm isn't necessarily "official", and work my way to the appropriate folks if needed. it's a minor problem, but i'd like to get it reported appropriately anyway. Description of problem: in prep for doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" fc2 to fc3 (i know that's not supported, but it's relevant background) i did and "apt-get install kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3". apt determined that it needed to upgrade mkinitrd as well. but the kernel was installed before mkinitrd which resulted in a problem running mkinitrd in the process of installing the kernel (output pasted below). mkinitrd installed ok afterwards, and removing/re-adding that version of the kernel worked fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.1.fc2.rf How reproducible: see above Steps to Reproduce: see above Actual results: initial failure: [root@lap archives]# apt-get install kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mkinitrd The following packages will be upgraded mkinitrd The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 736 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/17.1MB of archives. After unpacking 46.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel ########################################### [ 50%] Usage: new-kernel-pkg [-v] [--mkinitrd] [--rminitrd] [--initrdfile=<initrd-image>] [--depmod] [--rmmoddep] [--kernel-args=<args>] [--banner=<banner>] [--make-default] <--install | --remove> <kernel-version> (ex: new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.4.7-2) 2:mkinitrd ########################################### [100%] Done. --------------------------------------------- removing and installing the kernel worked ok once mkinitrd was upgraded: [root@lap archives]# apt-get remove kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 736 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 46.0MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Done. [root@lap archives]# apt-get install kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel#2.6.10-1.770_FC3 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 736 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 46.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] Done. Expected results: Additional info:
This is the wrong place for this query since Red Hat have never shipped apt in Fedora. If you do: rpm -qi apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.1.fc2.rf This should tell you the contact information for that RPM (try emailing the packager). Basically you need to ask for help on apt (or apt related problems) from whoever you got that apt RPM from.
Okay, super-duper certain that this isn't a yum issue. closing.