On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:30:48PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:20:58AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > >A few days ago a kernel update took out the gspcav1 driver and the > > > >accompanying kmdl package. At present the atrpms version can't be > > > >installed: > > > > > > > >Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 is needed by > > > >package gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 > > > > > > > >Is a build for 2.6.19 kernels in the pipeline, or should I build from > > > >source? > > > > It is already available since a coule of days at ATrpms. Either > > install the yum-plugin-kmdl or simply do > > > > yum install gspcav1-kmdl-`uname -r` > > > Hmm - I had been trying each day, but not realising that I should give it the > `uname -r` ending. > > > > You could possibly use the DKMS module from freshrpms.net and avoid this > > > issue since DKMS auto builds against the new kernel on bootup. On the > > > other hand DKMS would require compiler and related tools to be installed > > > on your system. > > > > And lacks reproducability in case the build went wrong, which makes > > kernel module debbugging even more difficult. > > > > (the main reason kernel folks at RH object to having kernel modules > > packaged in any format whatsoever is the issues with dealing with user > > bug reports on kernel/kernel modules) > > OK - got it, Axel. Is that all I need? I thought that originally I had a > separate gspcav1 package. Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I've already > admitted that I don't understand this :-) The kernel module projects are split in two packages: a) "gspcav1" containing everything that is not kernel version specific, e.g. docs, binaries under /usr, libs etc. b) "gspcav1-kmdl-<kernel version>" for each kernel package which contains the kernel module(s) for that explicit kernel On each kernel upgrade you need the matching kmdl. The yum-plugin-kmdl takes care on "yum install kernel" and "yum update", or you can manually bring the new kmdls in with the `uname -r` command. BTW the new kmdls don't even need yum-plugin-kmdl. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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