Re: kmod update with yum
Farkas Levente <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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Jack Neely wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:22:31PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> David Timms wrote: >>>> imho it's the same reason as the recent dbrd kmod thread where wasn't >>>> any solution. >>> Please give the mailing list archive URL, no idea what you are talking >>> about here ? >> it was on centos-devel list. >> >>>> anyway anybody know what is the yum-kmod and what is it good for? and >>>> try both with/without yum-kmod but the same happened:-( >>> A comparison of debug runs might lead to a better understanding. >> but for easy test: >> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/kmod-fuse-2.7.4-20.el5.i686.rpm >> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/kmod-fuse-2.7.4-21.el5.i686.rpm >> instal the first one on a rhel/centos-5 then put the second one into a >> repo and yum update and everybody will see the problem:-( >> > > The yum-fedorakmod (renamed yum-kmod in rhel/centos) is designed to > handle upgrading/installing/etc kernel modules packaged in the Fedora > Kmod standard. However, the RPMs you linked to above aren't packaged to > this standard...so your stuck with manual updates here. almost that standard except packaged for kabi compatible kernels (like the rhel/centos kernels) which case weak-updates can be used. > They do provide 'kernel-modules' which is what will trigger Yum to only > install these packages. For the same logic that you only install kernel > packages, not upgrade. i still ask why? according to man yum.conf: ------------------------------- installonlypkgs List of packages that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported. ------------------------------- so my question why? first of all kernel-modules not among them and anyway this doesn't says not just the package names but also the provides are checked! -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"