[ATrpms-users] atrpms and supported kernels

[Larry K]

Greetings to all and thanks to Axel et. al. for providing these prepackaged
binaries...

My latest journey.....

I just upgraded my FC3 0.18 box by reinstalling FC7 and mythtv from atrpms
to get past this zap2it problem.  Initially, the install DVD gave me kernel
2.6.21-1.3194, and after the yum update I ended up with a kernel newer than
what is supported by atrpms (maybe 2.6.23?  I forget).  So, I figured I
would roll back to 2.6.21-1.3194 since it  appeared to be supported on
atrpms.  I start installing packages and discover that ivtv kmdl does not
exist for this kernel, but other myth packages like nvidia and alsa do.
That seemed odd.

Why would there be partial support for a given kernel?  Why nvidia, alsa,
but not ivtv?

So then I figure I'll try kernel 2.6.22.4-65, but yum cannot find that
kernel anywhere.  I discover another myth user with the same problem and he
found this kernel posted on some obscure website, which I was able to
download from and install by using --old-package yum option.  I did see the
2.6.22.4-65 tux on ice kernel, but didn't bother to try this one.

Why was it so hard to find the plain ole 2.6.22.4-65 kernel when it is
currently supported on atrpms?  yum problem?

Was I doing something wrong, or was it just not supposed to be easy? :)

Thanks!
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