Bug 460047 – Kernel obsoletes existing Driver Updates on install

Bug 460047 - Kernel obsoletes existing Driver Updates on install

Summary:	Kernel obsoletes existing Driver Updates on install

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	beta
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Assigned To:	Jon Masters
QA Contact:	Martin Jenner
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Duplicates:	465883 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2008-08-25 14:03 EDT by Jon Masters
Modified:	2009-01-20 15:13 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2009-01-20 15:13:11 EST
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Add virtual "Obsoletes" dependencies to the kernel package (2.33 KB, patch) 2008-09-18 07:45 EDT, Jon Masters	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Jon Masters 2008-08-25 14:03:39 EDT

Description of problem:

Add RPM-level Obsoletes as a way of requiring existing driver updates shipped during RHEL5.2 to be uninstalled post-5.2, upon installation of 5.3 updates.

Comment 2 Jon Masters 2008-09-18 07:45:16 EDT

Created attachment 317059 [details]
Add virtual "Obsoletes" dependencies to the kernel package

Comment 3 Jon Masters 2008-09-18 07:46:21 EDT

Note, these are not done as numerical versions specifically in order to handle the design of virtual provides. We could also simply add a kernel provides saying "Provides: rhel-kernel: 5.3" for example.

Comment 7 Don Zickus 2008-11-12 11:37:15 EST

in kernel-2.6.18-123.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 9 Linda Wang 2008-12-03 09:42:15 EST

*** Bug 465883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 15:13:11 EST

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html

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