Kernel module permutation problems

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:44 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2006, 11:56 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:

> > We can't possibly rebuild modules for every previously released kernel.[...]
> 
> Agreed. My vote: Only build for the newest one. 
> 
> <insert complains from Ralf Corsepius here>; Answer: Ralf, let's build
> only for the newest one in the beginning. If that doesn't work we can
> still come back to this point and discuss it anew.
Sorry, Thorsten, but building for the latest kernel only is not sufficient.

Despite I can feel your pain, you *can't avoid* building at least for
the (latest-1) kernel, because during updates to the latest kernel, a
system's current rpmdb can contain dependencies on the current (==
latest-1) kernel - An example for such kind of situations is you current
nvidia kernel-module/glx packages.

Without adding at least (latest-1) kernel related packages, even users
tracking Fedora closely and updating frequently won't be able to update
kernel-modules.

Note: They won't be able to update from (latest-1) to (latest) on
systems running (latest-1)!

> >  This is simply a question of how many
> > factors do we care about here. [...]
> 
> Did I miss anything?
Yes, c.f. above.

Ralf