[ATrpms-users] nvidia graphics 7676 dependencies problem?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:58:10PM -0500, john bray wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:49 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> > On 4/3/06, john bray <john at johnbray.name> wrote:
> >         hmmm...  i was going to pick up the nvidia-graphics7676
> >         7676-68.1 package to replace the 7676-68 package
> >         
> >         but, when i click on it in smart i get the following error
> >         message:
> >         Can't install
> >         nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at at i686 : no package provides /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2
> >         
> >         i'm not sure what nvidia-graphics7676 has to do with
> >         cubbi_swsusp2
> >         vmlinuz?
> > 
> > You requested kmdl package for that kernel (that's what the part after
> > kmdl- means, the kernel it's built for). So a matching kernel must be
> > installed. The reason you can't get the kernel is probably that the
> > suspend kernels live in bleeding and you don't have it enabled (why
> > kmdl's for bleeding kernels are in stable, anyway?)
> > 
> > If you don't want that kernel, select another version of nvidia kmdl
> > for installation.
> 
> hi fidor - i didn't request any package related to that kernel.  this
> error appears to be connected to the nvidia-graphics package itself.

When you only require foo as opposed to foo and foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
you are letting the system guess a kernel for you. It may pick
whatever kernel there is. smart usually picks a kernel you already
have installed as it tries to minimize package installations, so it
sometimes does the right thing, but the correct procedure is to
explicitely ask for the kmdl for your kernel.

But for 7676 (see another thread) there are issues building on 2.6.16,
so there are some kernels it doesn't build for.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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