Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Axel Thimm um 18:24: > > yum install nvidia-graphics6629 > > > > The rest is done by yum. > > This can sometime go wrong, because the nvidia-graphics6629 requires > _some_ kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629 to be installed, but there > are more than one per arch (at least two per supported kernel, non-smp > and smp). > > So sometimes yum/apt start suggesting installing a kernel along with > the requested kernel module rpm. > > This cannot be easily solved (imagine a system with multiple kernels > installed). yum/apt could default to the running kernel, and there is > indeed some extension to apt that allows this (keywords are: Panu > and AllowDuplicates). > > So apt/yum need to be additionally told about which kernel to install > kernel-module-foo like > > apt-get install kernel-module-foo-<kernel> foo > > if <kernel> is the running kernel then `uname -r` (like above) is enough. Very certainly a helpful clarification for users of your packages / repository. Thanks! Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 18:38:51 up 20:24, 16 users, 1.73, 1.14, 1.22
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