Re: RHEL 5.2

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Tom,

I can't get to the linuxquestions link (no such site). Whoever says
there' no such group in 5.2 is incorrect. How else would I have been
able to quote the output of 'groupinfo'?

In a separate e-mail I'm sending you the most recent .i386 and .x86_64
updates for that package from the CentOS 5.2 updates.

--Doc

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 17:04 -0500, Tom Dison wrote:
> There is no group Virtualization on 5.2. I googled the error, and found this:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/hi-all-672324/
> 
> Apparently their repositories are just off on this file, and the
> suggestion was to just wait until they fixed it. This was a default
> install (I didn't select packages, just chose default install), that
> is why I was surprised to see this conflict. I don't use Xen, so it
> doesn't hurt anything. It just annoying to keep having the security
> update show up, but not be able to apply it.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > I don't think the Virtualization group is part of a default
> > installation. I use VMware Server rather than Xen, so I intentionally
> > didn't select anything from the Virtualization group when I first
> > installed RLEL 5.0. Oddly enough, I do have the xen-libs 3.0.3-64.el5
> > package installed, but nothing else with 'xen' in its name.
> >
> > To see what groups of related packages you have installed:
> >
> > # yum -y grouplist
> >
> > If you find Virtualization listed at the bottom under "Available Groups"
> > you don't have those packages installed. For more info run:
> >
> > # yum -y groupinfo Virtualization
> > ...
> > Group: Virtualization
> >  Description: Virtualization Support.
> >  Mandatory Packages:
> >   xen
> >   kernel-xen
> >  Default Packages:
> >   virt-manager
> >   Virtualization-en-US
> >   gnome-applet-vm
> >   libvirt
> >
> > To install these packages along with all of their dependencies, run:
> >
> > # yum -y groupinstall Virtualization
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > --Doc
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 23:05 -0700, Tom Dison wrote:
> >> I have a new install of RHEL 5.2. It is trying to update Xen, but when
> >> I does it gives me a dependency error:
> >>
> >> "Missing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-64.el5 is needed by package xen"
> >>
> >> This is a brand new install of RHEL, with a default selection. Any
> >> idea why this would happen. This seems odd to me for a supporter
> >> server.
> >>
> >> In several years of Debian/Ubuntu I have never had a package conflict.
> >> Is this a norm?
> >>
> >> Faith without Works is Dead...
> >
> >
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