[Yum-devel] kernel-module, fedorakmod plugin status
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue May 9 21:18:24 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:05 +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
> > > > What's the current status for handling kernel modules in yum? I
> > > > know we have a couple of plugins in yum-utils and we used to have
> > > > some code in depsolve.py that got moved out in February. Is the
> > > > plan that they are in a plugin
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone looked at the SuSE kernel module packaging and if they
> > > > have a yum plugin for that.
> > >
> > > Are you talking about the -kmp (kernel module packages) packages? We
> > > don't have any yum plugin for those.
> >
> > Yes I was. Would you (or someone) be interested in co-ordinating a
> > plugin, it should be relatively straight forward.
>
> What would be the feature set that you'd expect from a plugin like that?
> Most (if not all) features of the -kmp packages should be working without
> any plugin with yum, IIUC. The only feature I could think of, would be a
> plugin to autoselect -kmp packages for installation, if the modinfo(...)
> provides of the -kmp match some hardware of the system.
>
to properly install not update things that are kernel modules. Except
when the kernel version doesn't change but the module version does. So
you can update modules for existing kernels.
-sv
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