Dan Book wrote on 09.06.2015 22:01: > This has also been a problem for several releases with the akmods from > rpmfusion. There was always a problem; there where just less people running into it, because yum/dnf installed "kernel-devel" most of the time, which matched the kernel that was running on most systems; but quite a few x86-32 users ran into problems afaics, as kernel-PAE get's installed there sometimes and hence they needed kernel-PAE-devel. Mosts of the docs and howtos on the net don't mention that, which leads to confused and frustrating users; those in the end might be one of multiple problems why they switch to another distribution. > I think the more "correct" solution (read to the end) would > be to somehow prioritize the kernel-devel package (possibly multiple) > that matches the installed kernel(s). That's not a solution, that's solving the problem for some users and ignoring others (those that use kernel-PAE for example). > [...] CU thl > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 09.06.2015 21:04, Neal Gompa wrote: > > I've noticed that when dkms is installed, it's not grabbing the right > > kernel-devel package as a dependency. > > Because that's not possible with ordinary dependencies (might be > possible with soft dependencies [Suggests, Enhances etc]) unless we > change something in the kernel packaging (see below). > > > Instead, it grabs > > kernel-debug-devel. This occurs on Fedora 21 and 22, and I'm not sure > > why. > > Because all kernel*devel package provide kernel-devel iirc. > > > Anyone have any idea why this is happening and a way to work around it? > > Create something like a meta-package "kernel-devel-all" that depends on > all available kernel-devel packages (kernel-devel, kernel-PAE-devel, > kernel-debug-devel, ...) for the arch in question; then add "Requires: > kernel-devel-all" to the akmods and dkms packages. That's messy and > creates overhead for users, but that's afaics the only way it will work > for everyone; otherwise you'll always run into situations where a > kernel-devel package for one kernel variant gets installed while you are > running different variant. Example: You get kernel-devel via some > dependency in akmods or dkms; but you are running kernel-PAE on your > i686 machine, so building modules with akmods or dkms will fail, as > that's requires kernel-PAE-devel. > > HTH; CU, knurd > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > > > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
