From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010816 Description of problem: When trying to install the new kernel packages (2.4.9-6) for i686 and i686-smp rpm complains about missig packages (modutils & mkinitrd) and a conflict with one package (e2fsprogs). Trying to solve these problems by installing the missing packages from the update directory on ftp.redhat.com leads to one more missing package (filesystem). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -ivh kernel-smp-2.4.9-6.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.9-6.i686.rpm 2. rpm -Uvh modutils-2.4.6-4.i386.rpm mkinitrd-3.2.6-1.i386.rpm e2fsprogs-1.23-1.7.1.i386.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.23-1.7.1.i386.rpm Additional info:
"filesystem" is a noarch package (eg contains no binaries and is shared between i386/alpha/ia64) and is in the noarch/ directory....
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