[Fedora-packaging] kernel-module-proposal 2 and yum: some tests

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:58 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > [...]
> > Dependencies Resolved
> > 
> > =============================================================================
> > Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
> > Size
> > =============================================================================
> > Installing:
> > kernel-module-ndiswrapper  i686       1.1-1.2.6.11_1.1369_FC4smp
> > step_1            3.3 k
> > Installing for dependencies:
> > kernel-smp              i686       2.6.11-1.1369_FC4  base
> > 13 M
> > ndiswrapper             i386       1.1-1            step_1
> > 22 k
> > 
> > Transaction Summary
> > =============================================================================
> > Install      3 Package(s)his
> > [...]
> 
> Seems yum prefers to install the kernel-module for the smp kernel and
> therefor also installs that kernel even when a UP-Kernel is installed
> already. Not very nice :-( 

But not surprising. The SMP module has a higher version and so yum will
prefer it over the "older" one. This is one of the reasons for putting
the kernel version in %name instead.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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