[Yum] confusion with installing 3rd party kernel modules

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jul 28 05:46:34 UTC 2004


> Any suggestions on what I can do?
> 
> If I can't solve this, I'll just have to build the packages with version
> strings in the module filename and hardlink them to the real name in %post.
> 
> Funny thing about this problem, I can't figure out how to test it using 'rpm'
> directly.  The way deps work out, both the user-space and the kernel module
> packages need to be installed in the same transaction... but how do you update
> one package and install the second at the same time with 'rpm'?

to my knowledge, you don't. However, if you want to test this out it's
not too hard to setup a transaction set in python, so you could test
each result.

-sv







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