[Yum] confusion with installing 3rd party kernel modules

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:46:34AM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> 
> > Any suggestions on what I can do?
> > 
> > If I can't solve this, I'll just have to build the packages with version
> > strings in the module filename and hardlink them to the real name in %post.
> > 
> > Funny thing about this problem, I can't figure out how to test it using 'rpm'
> > directly.  The way deps work out, both the user-space and the kernel module
> > packages need to be installed in the same transaction... but how do you update
> > one package and install the second at the same time with 'rpm'?
> 
> to my knowledge, you don't. However, if you want to test this out it's
> not too hard to setup a transaction set in python, so you could test
> each result.

Is this a librpm issue or a yum issue?  It sounds to me like a librpm issue,
but without python knowledge, I don't know how to demostrate the problem to rpm
people.

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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