Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

[Ed Greshko]

Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:35:04 +0800
>Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've enabled the rpmfusion repos and have just tried to do "yum
>> install kmod-nvidia".
>
>...snip...
>
>> So, I think it should have failed with a dependency error, yes?
>> 
>> Would this be considered a bug in yum?
>
>It's hard to say without full yum output, but I think no. 

The "error" persisted even after a "clean all".

>rpmfusion just created their f15 branch and built the kmods for the
>releases kernel, then a bit later they built an update for the updated
>kernel you were running. I suspect you hit a mirror or checked before
>they pushed that update and the kmod against the release version was
>the only one available. So, not a yum bug, just a repo issue. 

So, you are saying that a condition could exist when a package would get installed even if the requirement for a specific kernel is not met?

I am confident the right stuff will get installed when the packages get up dated. But I'm concerned that any circumstance could exist that would allow the wrong package to be installed.


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