yum kernel/kmod update weirdness

[Ralf Corsepius]

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

Ralf