[Yum-devel] how to require a kernel module

[Jon Masters]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:15 -0500, James Antill wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:00 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 
> > and this means currently it's not possible to install any rhel-5 i386 
> > server with more then 2GB or ram from kickstart when any of the packages 
> > require any kmod package:-(
> 
>  You probably can't use a single kickstart file for <2GB and >2GB,
> requiring the kmod in the kickstart and not have both installed ... no.
> But you can change some of the other variables, like having a kickstart
> for PAE only or always installing both versions of the kmod.
>  If you want this "fixed" for RHEL-6 then you'll want to open a bug/RFE
> asap. through support.

Indeed. I haven't really had a lot of complaints about this issue. I
know that it's not quite ideal, but it's rare that people want to mix
kernels like this. I know we have various things under the name "kmod"
at this point, and we have discussed some kind of reconciliation. Part
of the problem is that Fedora absolutely does not want to do kmods.

Jon.