[Yum-devel] kernel-module plugin - problems during install

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:54 -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > One could try handling this by excluding all kernel-module packages 
> > except those of the "target kernel", so the depsolver only has one 
> > choice. The question then becomes: what exactly is the "target kernel" - 
> > is it the running kernel or the latest installed kernel? If you say 
> > "both" we're back to square one with depsolver having 50/50 chance of 
> > getting it wrong :)
> > 
> >     - Panu -
> 
> That does make sense, and explains my frustration at not getting any 
> further.
> But then, how do you tell your users to install things that require 
> kernel-modules?
> Oh ... I just figured that part out.
> 
> yum install openafs openafs-client kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r`
> 
> That works, and it garantee it get's them the kernel-module of what is 
> currently running, which was the main problem my users were seeing.

Well, if target kernel for kernel modules == running kernel is ok for
you, then the attached patch should do the trick. 

The problem with this of course is that if you've already updated the
system and have a newer kernel installed than you're running, nothing
will pull in the kernel module for the newer kernel.

	- Panu -
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