Re: other question about kmod

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer(a)ktdreyer.com&gt; wrote: > 2012/3/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt;: >> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:45 -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote: >>> 2012/3/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt;: >>> > Hi, >>> > other question about kmod , when I install  VirtualBox-OSE , shouldn't >>> > Requires: kmod-VirtualBox-OSE ? >>> >>> On PAE kernels, this would unnecessarily require the non-PAE kernel >>> and non-PAE kmod. >> >> We already don't have PAE kernels .. > > PAE kernels are still around. Check out a recent kernel build: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=307992 > > Or check out VirtualBox's kmod packages themselves: > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/16/i386/repoview/kmod-... > > vs. > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/16/i386/repoview/kmod-... > > It's probably best just to tell your users to download the correct one manually. I wonder if there's a way to do a more generic Requires using rpm metadata and not a specific package name. I tried repoquery to see the difference between the PAE and non-PAE package but I got confusing results: # repoquery --provides kmod-VirtualBox-OSE VirtualBox-OSE-kmod = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 kmod-VirtualBox-OSE = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 kmod-VirtualBox-OSE(x86-64) = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-PAE = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-smp = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-xen = 4.1.10-1.fc16.1 # repoquery --provides kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-PAE (no output) That seems strange to me.