These kmod versions are apparently related to centos "virt/xen" kernels in 6.7. If people don't think they are useful it would be easy enough avoid building kmod packages for those kernels.
Stephen On 8 January 2016 at 16:31, Berthold Cogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.01.2016 um 16:56 schrieb Stephan Wiesand: > > Hi Berthold, long time no see... > > > > On Jan 8, 2016, at 09:45 , Berthold Cogel wrote: > > > >> Somehow a kmod-openafs package got in the RHEL6 x86_64 repos that breaks > >> the update and installation process. I found this package in the repos > >> for 1.6.14..1.6.16 > >> > >> It's a module that seems to be build for a kernel 3.18, which is not > >> available for RHEL6. At least not through the official channels: > >> > >> kmod-openafs-1.6.16-1.3.18.21_16.el6.x86_64 > > > > > > sigh. RHEL + external kernel modules is so broken, thanks to the Fedora > religion :-( > > > > The repositories (packages *and* metadata) are just rsynced from the > place where Stephen provides them. Omitting select packages and rebuilding > the metadata is certainly doable but yet more work for which there is no > manpower available. > > > > I'll see what I can do but please don't hold your breath... > > > > Thanks for the report. At least it proves that some are still using the > repository. > > > > NB what are you using (or going to use) for EL7? > > > > Stephan > > > > Hi Stephan, > > it has been indeed a long time.... > > To much work for few people... and I'm a kind of 'single point of > failure' for our linux environment. That's why I'm still stuck with RHEL6. > > I've put an exclude in the repo file: > > exclude=kmod-openafs-1.6.16-1.3.18* > > And during kickstart I exclude the package with yum -x > kmod-openafs-1.6.16-1.3.18* (haven't tested this one yet...) > > > Berthold > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
