yum upgrades kernel modules

[Dan]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Anand Buddhdev <arb at anand.org> wrote:
>   
>> I just ran "yum update" on my FC5 system. There was a new kernel available, so
>> that was installed, but the associated nvidia kernel module package from Livna
>> was upgraded instead of being installed. The result is that my older kernel is
>> now left without the nvidia module, and if I want to go back to the older kernel
>> for some reason, the nvidia module won't be available.
>>
>> This is all trivial to fix of course, because I can just install the correct
>> nvidia module package to match the older kernel, but shouldn't kernel module
>> packages, like the kernel packages, be "installonly" instead of being upgradable?
>>     
>
> That's a very good idea, Anand.  Unfortuantely, since Linva does not
> fall under the auspices of the Fedora Project, you can't report that
> in Fedora's bugzilla.  That being said, the Livna project also uses
> bugzilla.  I'd strongly encourage you to open a bug against the driver
> here: http://bugzilla.livna.org/ and give the same feedback there that
> you gave here.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
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>
>   
I opened a bug at livna for this:
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851
-Dan