kmod packages pull in PAE kernel ?

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 01:03 +0100, Chris Nolan wrote:
> 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.

I've had quite a lot of people who install my akmod package for the
Poulsbo video driver report that it pulls in the PAE kernel -devel
package, even though the installed and running kernel is i586. Actually
it happened to me too, originally. It happens a lot for Poulsbo because
all Poulsbo-based systems use the i586 kernel (the CPU can't handle the
i686-PAE kernel). This is on F11.

-- 
adamw