Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.1.6-1.2 (cooker only)

[email protected] writes:

>> [email protected] writes:
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>>>   /me too now am happy with installing a 3.x kernel (did build the
>>> nvidia kernel driver cleanly).
>>>
>>>   Only issue is that I still keep a computer where I did not
>>> "rpm -e --nodeps linux-userspace-headers" and apparently should
>>> be a rpm issue. Maybe if removing the epoch it would work...
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>> Well, I added the epoch previously otherwise urpmi still wanted to
>> install linux-userpsace-headers after installing kernel-headers on 2011.
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>> And AFAIK it works fine on 2011.
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>   I think it is the same issue I had with texlive-* providing some
> tetex-* packages. The only solution was to actually remove the
> tetex-* packages from repositories (they were broken, unmaintained
> and not installable anyway), because apparently a provides of an
> existing package would not work. It had and still has those
> provides to not break build requires of existing packages...

I think we could remove the linux-userpsace-headers package as well,
this shouldn't hurt.

>   BTW, I noticed the 2.6.39 kernel installed as updates for 2011
> has the same issue of 3.1.6-1.1 regarding to compiling kernel
> modules, due to missing linux/version.h,

Yes.

That wasn't an issue previously but since the dkms package update, it
is.

> and may have the other drakx* issue (it does not boot in an i586 I saw
> being updated).

I need to see what's happening exactly here.

Thanks.
-- 
		Franck