[plug] re: kernel -smp conflict

[Jon Miller]

I was thinking along the same track on this one.

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au 10:53:37 PM 22/07/2003 >>>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:29:21PM +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
| error message:
| # rpm -Uvh bcm5700-6.2.11-1.i386.rpm 
| Preparing...                ###########################################
| [100%]
| file /lib/modules/2.4.18-14smp/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o
| from install of bcm5700-6.2.11-1 conflicts with file from package
| kernel-smp-2.4.18-14

Hmm... from my vantage point of blissfully unawareness of the vagaries
of RPM, it looks as though it's trying to tell you that there's already
a bcm5700.o in the kernel-smp package, and it's not willing to overwrite
it with the one in the new bcm5700 package.  In which case either
extracting the .o file or telling rpm to bugger off 'cos you really do
know what you're doing (a.k.a. --force-all or whatever rpm calls it)
should solve the problem.

Cameron.