[ATrpms-users] kmdl dependency problem with smart and 2911.6.5 kernel

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0500, Russell Brown wrote:
> I have recently started getting kernels with
> a couple of more digits at the end for fc6.
> For example, I now have two 2911 kernels
> installed
> 
> kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
> kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
> 
> When I tried to upgrade with yum
> 
> yum update
> 
> I run into a dependency conflict related to mpeg2dec,
> though it does find the kernel modules for all
> installed kernels.
> 
> If I upgrade with smart, the ivtv, alsa, lirc and nvidia9746
> kernel modules for the kernel 2911.6.5 kernel are not installed.

Only yum has a plugin to do that automatically, but the next
generation of kmdls will also support automatic co-installing w/o any
plugins, so all depsolvers will work.

> Is there any solution beyond installing the kernel
> modules by hand, e.g.
> yum install alsa-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-1.0.14-58_rc3.fc6.at
> and similarly for ivtv, lirc and nvidia?

For yum you can simply install the yum-plugin-kmdl and yum update
will take care of everything.

> I have become spoiled in the past year
> by having the kernel modules installed automatically.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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