On 6/15/2010 7:18 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:dgboles@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 6/15/2010 4:35 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > On 06/15/2010 02:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx > <mailto:bruno@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: > >> > >> I used to use kmod-nvidia(-PAE) and what I used to do was: > >> yum check-update > >> > >> Then if there was a kernel but no kmod update listed then I did an > >> update excluding the kernel - > >> > >> Later in the day do it again and if the kmod is then available do a > >> complete update - > >> Is that so difficult? > >> > >> I also used to use akmod-nvidia and found after some trial and error > >> that there was no -PAE version whereas there was a -PAE version of > >> kmod-nvidia-PAE so one had to be a little careful about exactly which > >> package to use! > >> > >> Hope this helps. > >> > >> > > Not so difficult, just seems like it should be unnecessary. If there > > are dependencies in installed components that will be broken by an > > update then the update shouldn't be offered/shown by yum/packagekit > > until the an updated dependency is satisfied (that sounds odd to > me but > > I hope you understand what I mean). > > > > Fedora provides you, free of charge, a perfectly good, working, > operating system. And they maintain that system. As provided. > > You modified it by adding a package, or packages, from a non Fedora > site(s). Fedora provided improvements and bug fixes for the system that > they provide and maintain that 'broke' when you modified that system? > > You modified your system. So you should fix it. > > > Have you read this message: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375289.html > > How can rpmfusion provide the module for a kernel it's not expecting > because the one in testing -- posted yesterday!!!! -- is an earlier > kernel? This seems to me like an important post and everybody ignores it. > > rpmfusion is not at fault. Unless it's admissible for Fedora to play > tricks on rpmfusion, the whole problem lies with Fedora. > > If there's something I don't get, what is it? > How is this for an explanation? Forbidden items http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems -- David
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