Hacking modversions

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Wed Mar 2 20:39:54 UTC 2005


*snip*
> 
>  kernel-module-foobar 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4-module_foobar_version_042
>  (meaning version 042 of foobar built against 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4)
> 
> and it says
> 
>  Requires:  kernel = 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4
>  Conflicts: kernel > 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4
> 
> Now, next time user types 'yum update', suddenly
> 
>   kernel-2.6.10-1.1155_FC4
> 
> is available. However, kernel-module-foobar is not updated yet so the
> update transaction fail (ok, maybe it's something other than Conflicts,
> expert packagers would know).
*snip*

Or will yum just bail out "hey there is a conflict here, so i won't do
ANYTHING AT ALL!!!*?




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