Yum upgrade problems

[Janina Sajka]

So you installed fedora-release for FC4? So, you've told yum that you're
running FC4. No wonder it can't find a kernel-utils for an FC3 kernel.

My advice is to stop being so clever and just update to, or simply
install FC5 and be done with it.

Wil James writes:
> I am attempting to upgrade Fedora Core 3 to 4 through Yum.  yes, I have done
> search on problems I'm encountered.  I am stuck on this one though.
>  
> When running yum update, I get the following:
>  
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libfltk.so.1.1 for package: OpenEXR
> 
> --> Processing Dependency: pinentry >= 0.7.1 for package: gnupg2
> --> Processing Dependency: libksba.so.8(KSBA_0.9) for package: gnupg2
> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-utils for package: kernel
> --> Processing Dependency: libfltk_gl.so.1.1 for package: OpenEXR
> --> Processing Dependency: libksba.so.8 for package: gnupg2
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> 
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package libksba.i386 0:0.9.13-2.fc4 set to be updated
> ---> Package pinentry.i386 0:0.7.1-4 set to be updated
> ---> Package fltk.i386 0:1.1.6-1.fc4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-utils for package: kernel
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-utils is needed by package kernel 
>  
> As you can see, everything is set to update, but I am stopped by this error
> message.  Any ideas of what's going on with this?
>  
> Oh, the kernel I am unning is 2.6.11-1.14_FC3spk, but when I boot up, I am
> running Fedora Core 4 after downloading the fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm,
> and running it with rpm -Uvh fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm.
>  
> TIA
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