[Yum] Keeping kernel modules in step with the kernel

Menno Smits menno-yum at freshfoo.com
Thu Jul 28 05:37:31 UTC 2005


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> Yum very politely offers new kernels when I run check-update but
> it doesn't seem to know about new kernel module packages to update
> along with the new kernel.  Would this fall under the special 
> handling rules or am I missing some clever configuration that would
> notice what module rpms I have running with my current kernel and 
> offer to install both a newer kernel and the associated module packages
> as an update?

This is a known and difficult to solve problem. It is being worked on. 
See the numerous discussions on the yum and yum-devel mailing lists and 
elsewhere.

For more info try googling for
	yum kernel module site:lists.dulug.duke.edu
as a starting point.

Menno





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