[ATrpms-users] ivtv and xen

[Gary McClellan]

On 12/12/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:28:09AM -0500, Gary McClellan wrote:
> > On 12/12/06, Gary McClellan <gary.mcclellan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Why does the latest ivtv require kernel-xen?
> > >
> > Apparently this problem is only in smart - in yum/yumex it updates
> > properly without the kernel-xen requirement.
>
> ivtv requires *any* kmdl, and usually smart chooses the kmdl for an
> installed kernel. Did you have kernel-xen installed?
>
> smart can't know for which installed kernel you want it to install the
> kmdl for. Ideally it would install it for every kernel you have
> installed, but that requires a plugin (which doesn't exist yet). For
> yum I wrote a plugin, so it does the right thing for you.

According to smart there is nothing xen installed. Strange.

I watch for it in the future when any kmdl I use is updated.

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Gary McClellan