RFC: kernel-modules in Fedora Extras

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 08:16 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2006, 13:59 -0500 schrieb Jack Neely: 
> > > The newer userland-package probably won't work with the old
> > > kernel-version anyway. But the question is correct: how do we solve
> > > this? IMHO the plugin should uninstall older kernel-modules. Or should a
> > > package "kmod-foo-1.2-1.2.6.14-1.1776_FC4" simply have a 
> > > Obsolets: kmod-foo < 1.2
> > > Would yum in this case uninstall the older versions during update
> > > (normally kmod-packages are installed and not updated, but in this case
> > > we want it to update)? 
> 
> > In practice I have the kernel module require the userland package but
> > not a specific version.
> > 
> >     Requires: openafs
> >
> > The justification is that there will not be multiple copies of the
> > userland tools installed and that package will require the kmod of a
> > specific version:
> > 
> >     Requires: kmod-openafs = 1.4.0
> 
> Okay. Welcome to our Theater. Main actor: User foo.
..
> User foo looks frustrated and begins to debug [...]

Now, the main character might want improvise on "inaccessible
filesystems", "non-bootable systems" or "garbled X" ;)

> End of scene 1. 
> 
> Don't know if the part "openafs won't work, because the older openafs
> userland package doesn't work with the new version of the kmod" is true
> for openafs, but it is for a lot of kernel-modules I know. So no, this
> doesn't work afaics.

I realize, the scripts' author has understood the scenario - Congrats!

Ralf