On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/11/2011 06:05 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Since the kernel is not dependent on kmod packages then the kernel >> will get updated regardless of kmod availability. Until the new kernel >> is installed then the dependency of the kmod is not met, which is why >> they don't get installed until the 2nd update run. > > I have never seen this happen. If the kmod is available when the > kernel's updated, the new kmod comes in. This isn't because of a > dependency, but because the kmod itself is being updated. I'm not sure what's different on my system other than having the akmod package installed at the same time. Here's one on my system from /var/log/yum.log: # grep -E "Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6|Installed: kernel-2.6" yum.log Jan 25 07:32:49 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.x86_64 Feb 11 14:15:51 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 Feb 14 10:28:58 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.1.x86_64 Apr 11 20:10:49 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64 Apr 28 09:15:10 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64 May 01 20:23:56 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.3.x86_64 May 10 13:51:13 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 May 10 17:36:26 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.4.x86_64 May 13 13:35:27 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64 May 13 18:00:39 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.3.x86_64 May 13 22:47:52 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.1.x86_64 May 17 08:38:03 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc14.x86_64 May 17 08:41:33 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-27.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.1.x86_64 Jun 07 11:24:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-31.fc14.x86_64 Jun 08 20:06:38 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-31.fc14.x86_64-275.09-1.fc14.1.x86_64 Jul 09 13:53:09 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc14.x86_64 Jul 29 16:12:22 Installed: kernel-2.6.40-3.fc14.x86_64 Aug 01 20:59:38 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 Aug 01 21:02:50 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64-275.09.07-1.fc15.2.x86_64 Aug 02 09:34:02 Installed: kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 Aug 03 20:36:53 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.x86_64 Aug 03 20:37:48 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64-275.21-1.fc15.x86_64 Aug 18 08:27:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 Aug 20 07:25:32 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.1.x86_64 Sep 07 11:35:46 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 Sep 08 11:49:22 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.2.x86_64 Oct 06 09:11:17 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 Oct 10 10:59:40 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.3.x86_64 Most of the time the kmod and kernel don't get upgraded on the same day and even when they do it's at a different time. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
