[Yum-devel] kernel-module plugin ...
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jun 8 13:43:47 UTC 2005
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:01:36AM -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > Wait, why would that happen? Just name the module with its own name and
> > its own version, and it'll upgrade itself fine.
> I'm not sure of the exact behavior of RPM here. If you have 5
> openafs-kernel packages installed and you "upgrade" a 6th, which of the
> installed packages gets removed? The higest EVR installed?
[...]
> My OpenAFS solution is similar except that I have a openafs-kernel
> package for each kernel version.
Yeah, that's one reason I just have everything together, and for a given
distribution, build *all* the kernel modules. Sidesteps the problem.
> I feel that the only thing keeping OpenAFS out of Extras is the lack of
> kernel module handling. Once that problem is hacked out I see no reason
> why OpenAFS shouldn't be included. Our packages are more alike than
> not. I'd most likely approve them for you after the kernel module thing
> gets fixed.
But yeah, for extras, it'd be nice to have a better solution.
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