other question about kmod

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Never mind, x86_64 doesn'thave PAE, retrying with repoquery --archlist :)

Richard