[syslinux] syslinux-tftpboot RPM fails to install

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 11 10:02:30 PST 2010


On 01/11/2010 07:17 AM, Richard Doogan wrote:
> 
> I've tried both RedHat EL4 Update 7 and EL5 Update 4, both give me the
> same problem.
> 
> 3.82 will install no problem at all :
> 
> [root at rdoogan-lnx ~]# rpm -Uvh syslinux-tftpboot-3.82-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>   1:syslinux-tftpboot      ###########################################
> [100%]
> 
> However, starting wth 3.83 I get the following issue :
> 
> [root at rdoogan-lnx ~]# rpm -Uvh syslinux-tftpboot-3.83-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by
> syslinux-tftpboot-3.83-1.i386
> 
> Here are my RPM versions, standard with RHEL5u4 :
> 
> [root at rdoogan-lnx ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i rpm
> rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> rpm-build-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5
> redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-32.0.1.el5
> 

I build the RPMs on Fedora, currently Fedora 11.  For RHEL, you may have
to rebuild from the SRPM (rpm --rebuild syslinux-3.84-1.src.rpm).

	-hpa
-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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