On 6/26/08, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:06:26PM +1000, O&M Ugarcina wrote: > > Just tried to pick up the new kernel 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 with yum , this is > > what I get: > > > > Dependencies Resolved > > Updating: > > alsa-driver i386 1.0.17-66_hg20080315.fc8 > > atrpms 148 k > > > Installing for dependencies: > > alsa-kmdl-2.6.25.6-27.fc8 i586 1.0.17-66_hg20080315.fc8 > > atrpms 1.6 M > > alsa-kmdl-2.6.25.6-27.fc8 i686 1.0.17-66_hg20080315.fc8 > > atrpms 1.6 M > > kernel i686 > 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 updates 18 M > > > It is trying to install 2 versions of the same alsa-kmdl one for i586 > > another for i686 . I only have i686 : > > > So theoretically it should not be trying to install i586 unless there > > issues with dependencies . > > True, this is an issue with yum that the plugin cannot fix. You can > only outsmart yum with > > yum install alsa-kmdl-2.6.25.6-27.fc8.i686 alsa-driver > > The reason is that the plugin kicks in after yum's dependency > calculation and yum picks up the i586 package. The plugin then picks > up the proper one, but has no way of knowing whether the other one was > wrongly picked up by yum or explicitly by the user etc. > > So in short: I cannot fix this, but it only happens if a kernel and a > kernel module get updated at the same time as it happened here (alsa > itself went to 1.0.17 as you can see above). > > Only in this corner case does yum need to pick some kmdl and by > Murphy's law it's always the wrong one. > -- > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users >
For kmods like this, I like to add an exclude line to yum.conf that includes something along the lines of alsa-kmdl-*i586. =-Jameson
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