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-2.7.4-20.el5.i686.rpm http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/kmod-fuse-2.7.4-21.el5.i686.rpm 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:-( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"