Need systemd unit file help.

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Mon Sep 26 20:07:32 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:00 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > The right solution is for the user to just uncheck the kernel from
> the list
> > of packages to update in the PackageKit GUI of choice (be it gnome-
> > packagekit, KPackageKit or Apper) if the kmod doesn't show up along
> with it.
> > It's not rocket science.
> 
> No, it's not rocket science, but it does require manual intervention
> on the part of the user who may or may not understand the relationship
> between the kmod driver and the kernel. Shouldn't updating (by kmod,
> or akmod) be more or less transparent to the end user? 

Then maybe we could add some logic into yum that (a)kmod could come with
a configuration file which does this (ie: blocking the kernel from
updating until the corresponding (a)kmod is available).

Pierre


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