Description of problem: Version numbering in the repository causes spurious conflicts when doing yum update. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable) iwl4965-firmware.noarch 0:4.44.1.20-1 kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.ppc How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum clean all 2. yum install iwl4965-firmware Actual results: ... Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts iwl4965-firmware < 228.57.2 ... kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.ppc from installed has depsolving problems --> kernel conflicts with iwl4965-firmware Error: kernel conflicts with iwl4965-firmware Expected results: Not that I really want this kind of non-open junk in my machine, but the expected result is installation, of course. Additional info: (Sorry about referencing marc, but the fedora archives appear to be down right now.) Where I started: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=122141369110742&w=2 Where this bug became clearly a bug: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=122146694005674&w=2 This earlier post has my dmesg in it: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=122138344503942&w=2
Previously the lastest iwl4965-firmware wasn't available in the ppc/ppc64 repositories because kernel hasn't iwl4965.ko built. Now that iwl4965.ko is also built on ppc. it does make a sense to have the firmware so it is been re-introduced. Then i'm going to close this bug as duplicate #458907 There is another side of the problem which has been reported as #459688 and was not ppc specific. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 458907 ***
note that if you don't need this, you can also uninstall it until the update is available in the ppc repositories (which will fix the problem for everyone)