yum upgrades kernel modules

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dan wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> I opened a bug at livna for this:
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851
> -Dan

One issue here is that the yum installonlyn plugin needs to know to remove
these modules when it removes the corresponding kernels.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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