[CentOS] kmod removal

Sat May 29 17:08:52 UTC 2021
Emmett Culley <lst_manage at webengineer.com>

On 5/29/21 9:29 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2021 09:19:03 -0700
> Emmett Culley via CentOS wrote:
> 
>> Seem there is no such package.  I believe because it get built newly each
>> time a new kernel is installed.
> 
> What did you do (exactly) when you installed kmod-wl in the first place?  Did the rpm have a name?  What was that name?
> 
> If you're not sure, the what is the output from:
> 
> rpm -qa | grep kmod
> 
> 

[root at ws1 etc]# rpm -qa | grep kmod
kmod-27-3.fc33.x86_64
akmods-0.5.6-26.fc33.noarch
kmod-libs-27-3.fc33.x86_64
kmodtool-1-41.fc33.noarch
akmod-wl-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.11.19-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.12.5-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.12.6-200.fc33.x86_64-6.30.223.271-36.fc33.x86_64


I probably did this when installing.  It has been a while.

[root at ws1 etc]# dnf install kmod-wl
Last metadata expiration check: 1:16:38 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 08:42:33 AM PDT.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
  Package                                    Architecture                              Version                                                   Repository                                                    Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
  kmod-wl                                    x86_64                                    6.30.223.271-36.fc33                                      rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                     10 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

I see that it is installing kmod-wl for the last kernel that would be installed if I did an update.

[root at ws1 etc]# dnf update --allowerasing --nobest
Last metadata expiration check: 1:21:41 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 08:42:33 AM PDT.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
  Package                                                         Architecture                           Version                                                Repository                                     Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
  kernel                            x86_64                                 5.12.7-200.fc33                                        updates                                        51 k
  kernel-core                       x86_64                                 5.12.7-200.fc33                                        updates                                        34 M
  kernel-devel                      x86_64                                 5.12.7-200.fc33                                        updates                                        14 M
  kernel-modules                    x86_64                                 5.12.7-200.fc33                                        updates                                        31 M
  kernel-modules-extra              x86_64                                 5.12.7-200.fc33                                        updates                                       2.0 M
Removing:
  kernel                            x86_64                                 5.11.19-200.fc33                                       @updates                                        0
  kernel-core                       x86_64                                 5.11.19-200.fc33                                       @updates                                       74 M
  kernel-devel                      x86_64                                 5.11.19-200.fc33                                       @updates                                       56 M
  kernel-modules                    x86_64                                 5.11.19-200.fc33                                       @updates                                       30 M
  kernel-modules-extra              x86_64                                 5.11.19-200.fc33                                       @updates                                      1.9 M
Removing dependent packages:
  kmod-wl-5.11.19-200.fc33.x86_64   x86_64                                 6.30.223.271-36.fc33                                   @@commandline                                 7.2 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install   5 Packages
Upgrade  14 Packages
Remove    6 Packages


Emmett