Hi all,

I build a repo with Xen and a EL6 kernel for a Xen Dom0 and I'm hoping 
to pick the brain of a few gurus here on sorting a few things out that 
I've broken.

Until now, I've been packaging in a repo file in a kernel-xen package 
which goes in /etc/yum.repos.d/. Due to a lot of changes in mirrors etc, 
I've decided to split this out into a seperate package called 
kernel-xen-release.

My problem now is trying to figure out how to handle upgrades between:
kernel-xen-2.6.32.55-3.x86_64 to kernel-xen-2.6.32.55-4.x86_64

-3 has the file /etc/yum.repos.d/kernel-xen.repo, -4 does not.

Now I've made kernel-xen have kernel-xen-release as a Requires: in the 
kernel-xen spec - however when you try to upgrade, yum wants to install 
kernel-xen-release BEFORE upgrading to -4 - causing a conflict on 
/etc/yum.repos.d/kernel-xen.repo

Now, I tried adding a Conflicts in kernel-xen-release as such:
	Conflicts: kernel-xen < 2.6.32.55-4

Now yum complains with:
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-xen.x86_64 0:2.6.32.55-4 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-xen-release for package: 
kernel-xen-2.6.32.55-4.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-xen-release.x86_64 0:6-2 will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: kernel-xen-release-6-2.x86_64 conflicts 
kernel-xen < 2.6.32.55-4
--> Processing Conflict: kernel-xen-release-6-2.x86_64 conflicts 
kernel-xen < 2.6.32.55-4
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: kernel-xen-release conflicts with kernel-xen
Error: kernel-xen-release conflicts with kernel
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

After this, I can't go any further.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get upgrades to work via 
YUM and not have these conflicts? I'm at a bit of a loss on how to 
figure it out!

-- 
Steven Haigh

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