hi, i need some help:-( i now spend many hours to find the reason why yum always install kmod rpms on centos and never update. currently there is not any weak-updates kmod rpm in centos which has more version-release, but as you try to update any kmod the same problem will arise. in case of fedora where kmod's are hardwired to a given kernel it's not a problem (but those are never weak-update kmods), but in case of centos where eg in 5.3 all kernel a kabi compatible then we can use none kernel version specific kmods. what's more in case of weak-updates kmod when the same package has more version installed cause many problems. suppose i've got a kmod installed eg: # rpm -q kmod-fuse kmod-fuse-2.7.4-20.el5 now i build a new one and try to update with yum update. it's always install it and i can't force yum to update it. anybody can tell me the reason? of course rpm -U update it.
imho it's the same reason as the recent dbrd kmod thread where wasn't any solution.
anyway anybody know what is the yum-kmod and what is it good for? and try both with/without yum-kmod but the same happened:-(
Farkas Levente wrote:
hi, i need some help:-( i now spend many hours to find the reason why yum always install kmod rpms on centos and never update. currently there is not any weak-updates kmod rpm in centos which has more version-release, but as you try to update any kmod the same problem will arise. in case of fedora where kmod's are hardwired to a given kernel it's not a problem (but those are never weak-update kmods), but in case of centos where eg in 5.3 all kernel a kabi compatible then we can use none kernel version specific kmods. what's more in case of weak-updates kmod when the same package has more version installed cause many problems. suppose i've got a kmod installed eg: # rpm -q kmod-fuse kmod-fuse-2.7.4-20.el5 now i build a new one and try to update with yum update. it's always install it and i can't force yum to update it. anybody can tell me the reason? of course rpm -U update it.
imho it's the same reason as the recent dbrd kmod thread where wasn't any solution.
anyway anybody know what is the yum-kmod and what is it good for? and try both with/without yum-kmod but the same happened:-(
but for easy test: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/kmod-fuse-2.7... http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/kmod-fuse-2.7... instal the first one on a rhel/centos-5.3 then put the second one into a repo and yum update and everybody will see the problem:-(
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Farkas Levente