Re: "yum install kmod-foo" installing wrong versions - problem with kmodtool?
On 22.09.2009 20:45, Jack Neely wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:18:43PM +0100, Chris Nolan wrote:
> Just a heads up: there has been a lot of user reports of problems
> recently with all kmods from rpmfusion.
>
> I haven't quite got to the bottom of it, but essentially it seems that
> if you're running the i686 kernel (which is now PAE only) and you
> install a kmod as usual with "yum install kmod-foo", then it will pull
> in the i586 version of the kmod instead of the correct i686 PAE version.
That was forseeable even before F11 was released:
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-kernel-pae-and-what-it-me...
But what is one blog entry that tried to explains the real solution vs.
a whole internet full of slightly misleading or outdated
howtos/FAQs/docs/blogs entries/... :-/
> The solution/workaround seems to be to remove the i586 kernel and
kmod,
> then you must do "yum install kmod-foo-PAE" specifically. This is
> causing quite a lot of confusion, and for the sake of our users I think
> it would be nice if we could fix this so that a "yum install kmod-foo"
> will install the correct kmod (as it used to I believe).
> [...]
This is something that the Yum plugin for kmod v2 will do...once
written.
Actually I'm wondering if the problem would be better solved if we put
all the different kmods into one package. But that has downsides as well...
Cu
knurd