nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:51:56PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> Does that mean it will prevent a kernel from getting installed if the 
>>> matching kmdls are not available?
>>
>> No, I didn't want a security update to be ladt off if it missed a
>> kmdl. But if you install a kernel the moment it gets released (and
>> therefore there are no kmdls yet available) once the kmdls are there
>> yum-plugin-kmdl will make yum update get them for you.
>
> .. but this is a Bad Thing when it comes to nvdia, because the next time  
> you reboot, X won't start for a few days.  In fact, most kmdls are pretty 
> important for day-to-day operations.  Clearly I can see how someone else 
> would want it to work the way you designed it, but that SO doesn't work for 
> me.

Well, one can change the plugin to behave as you want, but indeed most
users wanted to be asyncronous and not be held back by any third party
in getting their vendor updates.

If you want to experiment: In the loop where it checks whether a kmdl
exists or not just add in the case of a failure for a lookup to unmark
the kernel for installation. Or to add UPDATEDEFAULT=no to
/etc/sysconfig/kernel before installing it.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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