Yum is deeply flawed lately. Removes needed kernel modules by mistake

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Robin Laing
<Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
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>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Peter.
>  >
>
>  For Nvidia, I use the freshrpms version as it uses dkms and will
>  re-create the module on reboot.  No waiting or re-installing due to
>  livna being seconds behind the release of the new kernel.  :)
>
>
>
>  --
>  Robin Laing
>

Aside from the "what the hell have they done now" reaction, I guess
I'll have to go look into it.

I do have other modules and I don't want yum to remove them.

I've filed a bug report on this,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438181

One user already responded that

yum-fedorakmod

Is supposed to prevent.  I'll try, but I'm not optimistic because not
all modules follow the "Fedora Extras packaging standards" described
in that package's information.  For example, I have been using for a
very long time a kernel module called openafs-kernel.  I know it can
be repackaged as kmod-openafs, but doing so would break about 20
machines.  So I don't want to.


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