Re: how to require a kernel module

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Farkas Levente <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi,
> on rhel/centos-5w we've a lot's of kernel module (thanks to the elrepo) and
> we can build our own on a nearly standardized way for rhel/centos. but i now
> run into a problem how to add a require kmod line into another package's
> spec file. it seems to very easy, if i've got package x.spec:
> Requires: y-kmod
> first question whether y-kmod or kmod-y (tha package name or the virtual
> provides)? and if we go a bit further and have a i386 machine with 4gb ram
> which install by default kernel-PAE and like to install x into that machine
> i wish to pull (yum pull) kmod-x-PAE and not kmod-x since it can't be used
> on a PAE kernel. what's more if x pull kmod-y that also pull the none PAE
> kernel too which is also not a good think. there are two plugins in
> yum-utils yum-kernel-module and yum-fedorakmod, but none of the seems to
> working (yum-fedorakmod instal the proper kmod-x-PAE too if i set
> installforallkernels=1, but still install the non PAE one and the none PAE
> kernel too).
>
> so what's the good and proper solution to require y kernel module into
> package x (in a way that works with yum on all kernel variant)?
>
> i even like to modify any of the yum-kernel-module or yum-fedorakmod to be
> able to use, but the problem is that i can't write conditional requires in a
> package spec file which depend on the runtime kernel variant:-(
>
> anybody has any solution to this?
>
> --
>  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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Try to check out the kmod specs at rpmfusion.org, they are able to handle
the kmod-x and kmod-x-PAE

Tim

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