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[gilpel at altern.org]

Was: kmod-nvidia revisited. hijacking another thread

Phil Meyer wrote:

> On 08/06/2009 01:11 PM, Michael Hannon wrote:

> A new kernel comes out that is important to you.  The kmod-XXX modules
> will normally lag a new kernel for a week in testing

I had the nvidia driver installed for the last 2 kernel updates and the
"lag" was about 24 hours.

, and you don't want
> to wait.  The akmod tools will rebuild the kernel module(s) for you on
> the boot of the new kernel.

Really? I thought it involved some extra manip. Here's my last kmod upgrade:

Aug 06 14:34:22 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64
Aug 06 14:34:22 Updated: kmod-nvidia-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64
Aug 06 14:34:24 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64
Aug 06 14:34:29 Updated:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64-185.18.29-1.fc11.x86_64
Aug 06 14:34:36 Installed:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64

akmod will do all this automatically?

> The next time you update and there is a newer version of the kmod-XXX
> available, you will get it.

Why is that if akmod has already done the job?