akmods installs kernel-debug-devel

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2014-10-19 12:21 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com>:

> 2014-10-17 22:05 GMT+02:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>
>> On Sex, 2014-10-17 at 10:27 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> > I think the provides for the kernel-debug-devel package is causing
>> issues when
>> > installing akmods:
>> >
>> > # repoquery --provides kernel-debug-devel
>> > kernel-debug-devel = 3.16.6-200.fc20
>> > kernel-debug-devel(x86-64) = 3.16.6-200.fc20
>> > kernel-debug-devel-x86_64 = 3.16.6-200.fc20
>> > kernel-devel = 3.16.6-200.fc20+debug
>> > kernel-devel-uname-r = 3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64+debug
>> > kernel-devel-x86_64 = 3.16.6-200.fc20+debug
>> >
>> > --> Processing Dependency: kernel-devel-uname-r for package:
>> > akmods-0.5.1-3.fc19.noarch
>> > ---> Package kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 0:3.16.6-200.fc20 will be
>> installed
>> >
>> > Why does the kernel-debug-devel package have kernel-devel* provides?  Or
>> > should akmods require something different?
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227533
>>
>> akmods needs the kernel-devel of running kernel system , but doesn't
>> know at requires install time , so for me it is a bug , I usually say ,
>> use yum install akmods-foo and kernel-devel of running kernel
>> or like in http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#Akmods :
>>
>> yum install akmod-nvidia-96xx "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"
>>
>
> Best would be to have a yum/dnf plugin within akmod that would "emit" a
> RPM dependency based on that kernel-devel-uname-r value.
>
> There are probably few corner cases to work through such when there is a
> new kernel/kernel-devel and the corresponding kernel-devel isn't there. In
> this case it will need to pick the kernel-devel-uname-r from the
> transaction.
>
> Also this probably means that such plugin is installed "before" the
> akmod-foo installation is requested.
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)
>

Tryed to sum-up here:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3386

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Nicolas (kwizart)
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