On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:16 -0400, Jack Neely wrote: > > > > okay but HOW can it know? You've described what you see as problem but > > > > you haven't described any way yum can know about what's you think > > > > _should_ be going on. > > > > > > But it is a problem and we should (read: need to) solve it imho. How? > > > I'm not sure. We could > > > > > > - package modules for all kernels in one package (I don't really like > > > this idea, but if this is the only solution we need to go it imho) > > > - fix our proposal so it works better with yum (hint's from you are > > > greatly appreciated) > > > - add support for yum somehow so it can resolve the dep correctly. I > > > unfortunately don't know neither yum nor python enough to fix that > > > myself :-| > > > > > > > All kernel-modules packages require the exact kernel they are built > > against. Yum does/will use this information to figure out which one of > > the kernel-module packages are the best for your system. > > > > However, I need to figure out and change some of the more un-fun code in > > Yum to support this. Its not as easy as it sounds. > > > > what things need to be changed or are you talking about mostly code in > your patch? > > -sv I need to work on the code that finds all the available packages and all packages to be updated/installed to special case the kernel modules. Jack > > > -- > Fedora-packaging mailing list > Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Campus Linux Services Project Lead PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
