On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:56:32PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I've noticed that when the yum update runs, it replaces the
> openafs-kernel module, rather than just installing the new one.
> That's bad if I end up not keeping the new kernel. Other kernel module
> RPMS leave the old versions.
>
> I asked in the RPM list and the fix for that, at least on Fedora Core
> versions of linux, is to add this line
>
> Provides: kernel-modules = %{kernvers}
>
> In this way, yum/rpm knows to leave the module until the kernel itself
> is removed.That's not yet enough, it was shown last year, that any scheme not having the uname -r in the name of the package (the rpm name as in contrast to the rpm version/release) can only support the very latest kernel. But ATrpms has kmdls (w/ the uname -r in name) and a yum plugin that simply work. Check that out, if you like. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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