kmod packages pull in PAE kernel ?

Chris Nolan chris at cenolan.com
Sun Aug 30 02:03:44 CEST 2009


On 29/08/09 00:09, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Here's what's happening (log below). The system only has one kernel
> installed (kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586). This is F-11 with
> updates, i386, no test updates. Simply installing 'open-vm-tools' seems
> to bring in the PAE kernel as well. It will install
> 'open-vm-tools-kmod', which in turns brings in the PAE kmod, bringing
> the PAE kernel along...

I have heard/been told (but not witnessed) of the same thing happening 
since F-10 with the kmod-wl package. There's been a few comments on my 
blog about it.


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