Bug 445591 (gfs2-kmod-upgrade)

What rhn server was being used for this test?  Can you list teh channels
subscribed to? (echo repo list | yum shell)?

 Actually this set of errors are coming from rpm, so there isn't anything yum
can do.

 So saying that, again typing while I think, ... yum-kmod plugin should be
"doing the right thing" here, AIUI.

 What's the output of: yum list yum\*

...and does the latest yum/yum-kmod fix it?

 Ok, so if I login to the test base and "yum install yum-kmod" and then yum
update, I get:

Installing:
 dhcpv6-client           i386       1.0.10-4.el5     rhel-i386-server-5  120 k
     replacing  dhcpv6_client.i386 0.10-33.el5

 kernel                  i686       2.6.18-92.el5    rhel-i386-server-5   14 M
 kernel-xen              i686       2.6.18-92.el5    rhel-i386-server-5   15 M
 kmod-gfs                i686       0.1.23-5.el5    
rhel-i386-server-cluster-storage-5  138 k
 kmod-gfs-xen            i686       0.1.23-5.el5    
rhel-i386-server-cluster-storage-5  138 k
 kmod-gfs2               i686       1.92-1.1.el5    
rhel-i386-server-cluster-storage-5  436 k
 kmod-gfs2-xen           i686       1.92-1.1.el5    
rhel-i386-server-cluster-storage-5  426 k
 libhugetlbfs            i386       1.2-5.el5        rhel-i386-server-5   14 k
     replacing  libhugetlbfs-lib.i386 1.0.1-1.el5
Removing:
 kmod-gfs                i686       0.1.19-7.el5     installed         304 k
 kmod-gfs-xen            i686       0.1.19-7.el5     installed         304 k
 kmod-gfs2               i686       1.52-1.16.el5    installed         1.1 M
 kmod-gfs2-xen           i686       1.52-1.16.el5    installed         1.1 M

...which I'm pretty sure is the right thing.

 And removing yum-kmod and running again, I get basically the same output except
the old versions aren't being removed.

 So the big question is, why isn't yum-kmod installed on a system with kmods
installed ... and can/does this happen to our customers?

 Note that I didn't run the Transaction ... as I didn't want to alter the
machine, from it's current state. But I'm 99%+ sure that if yum-kmod is
installed rpm won't complain.

if you can reproduce it add 'test' to tsflags in yum.conf under [main]

and run the ts.

I added the 'test' flag and got the same errors.

I also added a repo with gfs2-kmod packages that obsoleted their respective
packages and also received the same error, although this time in the yum log I
saw this: 

 kmod-gfs2               i686       1.92-1.2.test.3.el5  gfs2-kmod         433 k
     replacing  kmod-gfs2.i686 1.52-1.16.el5

 kmod-gfs2-xen           i686       1.92-1.2.test.3.el5  gfs2-kmod         425 k
     replacing  kmod-gfs2-xen.i686 1.52-1.16.el5

*** Bug 446119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

thanks Suzanne, adding to RHEL5.2 release notes updates:

<quote>
If your system has an older version of the yum-kmod and gfs2-kmod packages
installed, upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 to 5.2 will fail. To
prevent this, upgrade your yum-kmod to the latest version first (using yum
update yum-kmod) before running yum update.
</quote>

note that as per BZ#428323, the following bug also exists:

<quote>
If your system has yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-5.el5_1.2 (or an earlier version)
installed, you will be unable to upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 through
yum update. To work around this, upgrade your yum-rhn-plugin to the latest
version (using yum update yum-rhn-plugin) before running yum update.
</quote>

FYI. anyhow, please advise if any further revisions are required. thanks!

"If your system has older versions of both the yum-kmod and gfs2-kmod packages..."


(Perhaps) slightly clearer wording.  Not a biggy.

Don, this issue only happens when you don't have yum-kmod installed (if yum-kmod
was installed we wouldn't have this issue).  So a possible re-wording would be:

If your system has an older version of the gfs2-kmod packages installed without
the yum-kmod package installed, upgrading...

thanks Chris, revising as:

<quote>
If your system has an older version of the gfs2-kmod package installed but the
yum-kmod package is not installed, upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
to 5.2 will fail. To prevent this, install the latest version of yum-kmod first
(using yum install yum-kmod) before running yum update.
</quote>

please advise if any further revisions are required. thanks!

That looks good to me.  Thanks!

Looks good to me.

There should be nothing to fix for this bug other than installing yum-kmod and
once the user has the 5.2 gfs2-kmod package installed they won't have an issue
upgrading to 5.3.  Closing this as WONTFIX.

*** Bug 453001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Tracking this bug for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release Notes.

Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

*** Bug 459045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

as per comment #31 on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248129 
i am removing this note from the 5.3 release notes.