Axel Thimm escribío:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:28:06PM -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
>> Axel Thimm escribío:
>>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 07:42:03AM -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
>>>> it appears that the yum-plugin-kmdl-0.6-8.fc6.at for atrpms does not
>>>> work for the 2.6.20 kernel. Or at least for the last two kernel
>>>> upgrades, it did not add the ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.i686
>>>> 1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at nor ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.i686.
>>> Can your provide some more details? E.g. a full yum output and a list
>>> of installed kernel and kmdls?
>
>> I wish I had made a copy of the yum transaction. Sorry.
>
>> After I ran yum, I checked the atrpms site and the
>> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933 and the ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933 were not
>> available. This am, I ran "yum update" and it returned "No Packages
>> marked for Update/Obsoletion".
>
> OK, there is a "slight" issue with yum-plugin-kmdl: Due to the nature
> of the plugin architecture it only kicks in if the normal yum
> procedure finds that there is something else to update as well.
>
> That is if yum w/o any kmdl support thinks that nothing is to be
> updated the yum-plugin-kmdl code is never executed.
>
> Since the kmdls are usually issued very soon after the kernel rpm
> update most people update the kernel and the kmdls in one sweep with
> yum-plugin-kmdl. And you always have somethingto update to almost
> every day. So the chances of
>
> o having update to the latest kernel,
> o the kmdls not being yet available at that time
> o no other update other than the kmdls exist
>
> are very slim, but did hit you. The upcoming kmdl setup will deal w/o
> a plugin at all, so this will not be an issue anymore, and for now,
> either wait a day until another regular update is queued in, or use
>
> yum install foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
Thank you very much. You do a great service to the fedora comunity.
Thanks.
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