DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package

[Dan Book]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
wrote:

> Dan Book wrote on 09.06.2015 22:01:
> > This has also been a problem for several releases with the akmods from
> > rpmfusion.
>
> There was always a problem; there where just less people running into
> it, because yum/dnf installed "kernel-devel" most of the time, which
> matched the kernel that was running on most systems; but quite a few
> x86-32 users ran into problems afaics, as kernel-PAE get's installed
> there sometimes and hence they needed kernel-PAE-devel.
>
> Mosts of the docs and howtos on the net don't mention that, which leads
> to confused and frustrating users; those in the end might be one of
> multiple problems why they switch to another distribution.
>
> > I think the more "correct" solution (read to the end) would
> > be to somehow prioritize the kernel-devel package (possibly multiple)
> > that matches the installed kernel(s).
>
> That's not a solution, that's solving the problem for some users and
> ignoring others (those that use kernel-PAE for example).
>

"The kernel-devel package that matches the installed kernel(s)" would
include kernel-PAE-devel matching kernel-PAE, in this fantasy land I
invented.


>
> > [...]
>
> CU
> thl
>

-Dan


>
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info
> > <mailto:fedora at leemhuis.info>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 09.06.2015 21:04, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >     > I've noticed that when dkms is installed, it's not grabbing the
> right
> >     > kernel-devel package as a dependency.
> >
> >     Because that's not possible with ordinary dependencies (might be
> >     possible with soft dependencies [Suggests, Enhances etc]) unless we
> >     change something in the kernel packaging (see below).
> >
> >     > Instead, it grabs
> >     > kernel-debug-devel. This occurs on Fedora 21 and 22, and I'm not
> sure
> >     > why.
> >
> >     Because all kernel*devel package provide kernel-devel iirc.
> >
> >     > Anyone have any idea why this is happening and a way to work
> around it?
> >
> >     Create something like a meta-package "kernel-devel-all" that depends
> on
> >     all available kernel-devel packages (kernel-devel, kernel-PAE-devel,
> >     kernel-debug-devel, ...) for the arch in question; then add
> "Requires:
> >     kernel-devel-all" to the akmods and dkms packages. That's messy and
> >     creates overhead for users, but that's afaics the only way it will
> work
> >     for everyone; otherwise you'll always run into situations where a
> >     kernel-devel package for one kernel variant gets installed while you
> are
> >     running different variant. Example: You get kernel-devel via some
> >     dependency in akmods or dkms; but you are running kernel-PAE on your
> >     i686 machine, so building modules with akmods or dkms will fail, as
> >     that's requires kernel-PAE-devel.
> >
> >     HTH; CU, knurd
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