2014-10-17 22:05 GMT+02:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio@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)