atrpms kernel modules

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue Jul 18 01:24:32 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:42:46PM +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> When i upgrade a kernel on my system, i have to install manually
> (nothing available as yum update) the kernel module ? At least it is
> what i need to do with spca5xx-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686. Why this is
> not do by yum update ?

Because such packages have a two-dimensional evr (one for the kernel
and one for the module itself) and neither rpm, nor any higher
depsolver supports this (other than apt & lua).

But it's not a real problem, on ATrpms' archives you'll find
three-line recipes that effectively do what you want it to do.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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