[CentOS-devel] why are 6.5 kmods in 6.6 updates?

Wed Feb 18 11:35:06 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 02/16/2015 02:17 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> it's currently in the updates directory not in the os with this
> reasoning all package in all previous updates directory should have to
> go into 6.6's update directory!?
> what's more these kernel modules already included in the latest kernel
> packages! eg: rtsx_pci.ko

Sure, but are they causing you any PROBLEMS there?  If not, then I see
no need to move them now.  Stuff happens.

> 
> On 02/16/2015 06:47 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 02/16/2015 05:49 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> any response from the centos team?
>>>
>>> On 02/10/2015 11:16 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>> hi, why are kernel modules which build for 6.5 are in the 6.6 
>>>> updates directory? rh usually release kmod rpms only in case 
>>>> when they don't want to change kernel package in a . release. 
>>>> but in this case kmod packages build for 6.5 in the 6.6
>>>> updates directory. does it have any good reason?
>>>>
>>>> kmod-hpsa-3.4.4_1_RH1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-megaraid_sas-06.803.01.00_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-memstick_dup-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-mmc_block_dup-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-mmc_core_dup-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-oracleasm-2.0.8-4.el6_6.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-rtsx_pci-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-rtsx_pci_ms-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
>>>> kmod-rtsx_pci_sdmmc-0.1_rh1-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> My only response is that they will only install when you meet the 
>> requirements and they are in the active RHEL tree, and they don't 
>> cause closure problems there.
>>
>> In RHEL, all old packages are still available to users and these 
>> don't hurt anything also in this repo.  They are also in the 6.5 
>> updates repo.
>>
>> In testing, we needed them for some reason, so they were added.
>>
>> Are they in some way causing you a problem?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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