Re: how to require a kernel module
Farkas Levente <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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On 02/19/2010 08:25 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Farkas Levente <[email protected] > <mailto:[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!" > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > Try to check out the kmod specs at rpmfusion.org <http://rpmfusion.org>, > they are able to handle the kmod-x and kmod-x-PAE it seems most people don't understand the problem. i do NOT want to create kmod rpm (at least in this case), but create a normal rpm which depend on a kmod. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"