yum kernel/kmod update weirdness

[Tim Lauridsen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 15:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 06:56 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 09:03 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have an explanation for this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # rpm -qa 'kernel' 'kmod*'
>>>> kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
>>>> kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
>>>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.21_1.3228.fc7
>>>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_27.fc7
>>>>
>>>> # yum update
>>>> Installing:
>>>>  kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-33.fc7  updates            16 M
>>>>  kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_33.fc7  livna             2.4 M
>>>> Updating:
>>>>  kernel-headers          i386       2.6.22.1-33.fc7  updates           652 k
>>>> Removing:
>>>>  kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-27.fc7  installed          46 M
>>>>  kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.21_1.3228.fc7  installed         7.5 M
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This would cause the system to end up with this setup:
>>>> kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7
>>>> kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
>>>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_33.fc7
>>>> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_27.fc7
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't seem right to me.
>>>>         
>>> do you have the yum kmod plugin installed?
>>>       
>> Nope, just these:
>>
>> # rpm -qa 'yum*'
>> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7
>> yum-utils-1.1.5-1.fc7
>> yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
>>
>>     
>
> If you install yum-kernel-module
>
> does it start doing the right thing?
>
> -sv
>
>
>   
I should be the 'yum-fedorakmod' plugin, if you want to use 'kmod' 
kernel modules.

Tim
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