other question about kmod

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> 2012/3/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:45 -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>>> 2012/3/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>>> > 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-VirtualBox-OSE.html
>
> vs.
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/16/i386/repoview/kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-PAE.html
>
> 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.

Richard