On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jan Kundrát wrote:

> Dear list,
> I've hit the following issue on a 5.2 box. When trying to run `yum
> update kernel`, yum wants to remove quite a lot of items:
...
> ---> Package xfs.x86_64 0:0.4-1.el5 set to be erased
...
> I guess the problem is related to using the "xfs" string for both the
> XFS kernel module and also the X Font Server. See below:
...
> So, the problem is that xorg-x11-server-Xorg, which depends on
> xorg-x11-fonts-base, which depends on chkfontpath, depends on "xfs":
...

If you manually install xorg-x11-xfs (and remove xfs) that should then let 
the dependency checker work ok (xorg-x11-xfs would probably have been 
accidentally removed when xfs was installed...)

You only need xfs to pull in the right kernel-module-xfs packages.

The xfs metapackage was renamed in sl53 to avoid this problem, it became 
xfs-filesystem, though it will only be needed on i386 machines or with 
older kernels since TUV included xfs support for x84_64 starting with 
EL5.4...

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