Re: Another funny update?

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 13:20:28 -0500,
  Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> Shouldn't there be a way for yum/packagekit to understand the
> interdependencies when kmod packages are installed such that a new
> kernel update is *not* offered if the corresponding kmod package that
> uses it is not available?  Could this be a new yum extension I see in
> the future?

I think it can do it now. One approach would be that when a kmod is first
built it conflicts against any later kernels. This should block kernel
updates. Then when a kmod is made for a later version of the kernel,
the earlier kmod gets an update that no longer conflicts with later kernels.
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