I volunteer

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Sep 25 20:51:21 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:46, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> > the biggest problem to work around has todo with kernel updates and
> > openafs version updates.
> > 
> > the openafs kernel modules are built to a specific kernel version and
> > therefore must be install-only -not hard.
> 
> Current up2date will do the install-not-upgrade dance for any
> package that 'Provides: kernel-modules' - I'm guessing similar
> capabilities could be added to apt and yum fairly quickly, and
> such packages ported to provide that...

yum has an installonlypkgs config that can be set but it is not handled
automagically - I'll have to do that.

still doesn't get around the problem of the modules needing a specific
version of the openafs client software.

-sv






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