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

[Troy Dawson]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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 -
> 

Thanks for the patch Panu
So far it has worked on all the machines I've tried it on.  I haven't 
been able to test it on a machine that is upgrading it's kernel yet, but 
I should have that tested tomorrow.

Troy
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