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

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Mon Feb 16 20:17:00 UTC 2015


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

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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