Re: Re: Yum or repository problem?

Axel Thimm wrote:
> dkms has currently the problem that the modules aren't conceived as
> packages at all and don't get removed on package removal. There is
>   
True. Worst-case situation, I'll have a bunch of modules belonging to
old kernels hanging around.
> talk about making this happen, and if the solution is to create a
> dependency on the kernel you will see exactly the same thing.
>
>   
I mentioned earlier that I modified module-init-tools. The file
/sbin/weak-updates, to be exact. Because this file is called whenever
the kernel is installed or removed.

At this moment I'm setting it up so that "/sbin/weak-modules
--add-kernel <KERNE_VERSION>" would call /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller,
which means kernel modules and initrd would get build during new kernel
install. It would be a trivial manner to hijack "/sbin/weak-modules
--remove-kernel <KERNEL_VERSION>" so that it would remove dkms modules
for that particular kernel version.

The downside of this approach is replacing an upstream package
(module-init-tools). I'd rather not do this, but at the moment this is
the best solution that I can find.

Regards,

Fajar