> The newer userland-package probably won't work with the old
> kernel-version anyway. But the question is correct: how do we solve
> this? IMHO the plugin should uninstall older kernel-modules. Or should a
> package "kmod-foo-1.2-1.2.6.14-1.1776_FC4" simply have a
> Obsolets: kmod-foo < 1.2
> Would yum in this case uninstall the older versions during update
> (normally kmod-packages are installed and not updated, but in this case
> we want it to update)?
>
In practice I have the kernel module require the userland package but
not a specific version.
Requires: openafs
The justification is that there will not be multiple copies of the
userland tools installed and that package will require the kmod of a
specific version:
Requires: kmod-openafs = 1.4.0
Jack
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