Re: how to require a kernel module

Farkas Levente <lfarkas@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:36:22 +0100

On 02/19/2010 08:25 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote:

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:lfarkas@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    hi,
    on rhel/centos-5w we've a lot's of kernel module (thanks to the
    elrepo) and we can build our own on a nearly standardized way for
    rhel/centos. but i now run into a problem how to add a require kmod
    line into another package's spec file. it seems to very easy, if
    i've got package x.spec:
    Requires: y-kmod
    first question whether y-kmod or kmod-y (tha package name or the
    virtual provides)? and if we go a bit further and have a i386
    machine with 4gb ram which install by default kernel-PAE and like to
    install x into that machine i wish to pull (yum pull) kmod-x-PAE and
    not kmod-x since it can't be used on a PAE kernel. what's more if x
    pull kmod-y that also pull the none PAE kernel too which is also not
    a good think. there are two plugins in yum-utils yum-kernel-module
    and yum-fedorakmod, but none of the seems to working (yum-fedorakmod
    instal the proper kmod-x-PAE too if i set installforallkernels=1,
    but still install the non PAE one and the none PAE kernel too).

    so what's the good and proper solution to require y kernel module
    into package x (in a way that works with yum on all kernel variant)?

    i even like to modify any of the yum-kernel-module or yum-fedorakmod
    to be able to use, but the problem is that i can't write conditional
    requires in a package spec file which depend on the runtime kernel
    variant:-(

    anybody has any solution to this?

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Try to check out the kmod specs at rpmfusion.org <http://rpmfusion.org>,
they are able to handle the kmod-x and kmod-x-PAE

it seems most people don't understand the problem. i do NOT want to 

create kmod rpm (at least in this case), but create a normal rpm which 

depend on a kmod.

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