Axel Thimm wrote at about 00:24:27 +0300 on Friday, June 13, 2008:
 > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:26:06PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >  > > I just tried installing the rpm but it wants to remove for
 > >  > > dependencies one of my 2 older kernels (and associated kmdl's) and
 > >  > > upgrade my kernel to 2.6.25.
 > 
 > >  > Can you post command & output? Thanks!
 > > Sure... Here it is (plus I am also appending my currently installed
 > > nvidia and kernel-related rpms)
 > 
 > > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.25.4-10.fc8 set to be installed
 > 
 > > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.24.7-92.fc8 set to be erased
 > 
 > > Removing:
 > >  kernel                  i686       2.6.24.7-92.fc8  installed
 > >  46 M
 > > Installing for dependencies:
 > >  kernel                  i686       2.6.25.4-10.fc8  updates
 > >  18 M
 > 
 > > Also, my current running kernel is: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8
 > > 
 > > And, I have the following kernel-related rpms currently installed:
 > >     kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.i686.rpm
 > >     kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.i686.rpm
 > 
 > My educated guess: The update tried to pull in a new kernel. yum found
 > that you had two already installed and the default is to keep only two
 > (?). But it couldn't remove the oldest one as it was the running
 > kernel, so it went on to the next one.
 > 
Yes -- I do have it set to keep the latest two kernels.
I think your 'guess' is probably right on target.

 > If that's right then there is some bug in yum's installonlyn kernel
 > logic (if one kernel needs to be skipped it should reduce the number of
 > to be removed kernels by one, not leave it alone).

It does sound like a bug. I have never run into it before since I
usually reboot after a kernel upgrade but since my system is so
stable and since I keep a lot of stuff open in emacs (such as
half-composed mail) and due to some combination of laziness and/or
forgetfullness, I never bothered to reboot after the last kernel
update.

 > I'd say that the rest is expected behaviour: You asked for the legacy
 > driver that currently points to a version that only offers kmdls for
 > the latest kernel, so the depsolver had to include that kernel into
 > the update.
 > 
 > But at least this answers the original question: Yes, the legacy
 > drivers do support 2.6.25. :)

That is good news (I think).

 > -- 
 > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
 > 
 > [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 401552D4639A99F1 17 2 01 1213305867 9
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