On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:41:02AM -0400, David Kramer wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:03:11PM -0400, David Kramer wrote: >>> I have a unique opportunity in that both my server and my laptop are >>> running F8 with nvidia cards, so I can try one way on one computer and >>> another way on the other, and see how it goes. For now, I simply don't >>> do kernel upgrades on the server unless I see atrpms has the right nvidia >>> drivers already, which is a hassle. Maybe I'll try dkms there. >> >> Or try yum-plugin-kmdl. >> > > "This yum plugin ensures that new kernel packages will get the same > "kmdls" installed like the currently installed kernels have." > > 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. > I wasn't able to find anything else on it, not even at > http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumPlugins I had submitted this plugin some while back and there was positive response, but it wasn't merged into yum-utils yet. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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