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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Donnerstag, den 29.09.2005, 11:36 -0400 schrieb 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.

No, it is not. If the kernel-version is in %name you probably have

Requires: kernel-module-ndiswrapper = 1.1-1 

in your ndiswrapper-package and

Provides: kernel-module-ndiswrapper = 1.1-1 

in the module package. This is needed to get the kernel-module when you
type

yum install ndiswrapper

Then the same thing can happen. See for example:
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392#c9

Here yum installed the UP-kernel and the UP-kernel-module on a machine
that only had a SMP-Kernel before.

-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>