On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fed...@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Dan Book wrote on 09.06.2015 22:01: > > This has also been a problem for several releases with the akmods from > > rpmfusion. > > There was always a problem; there where just less people running into > it, because yum/dnf installed "kernel-devel" most of the time, which > matched the kernel that was running on most systems; but quite a few > x86-32 users ran into problems afaics, as kernel-PAE get's installed > there sometimes and hence they needed kernel-PAE-devel. > > Mosts of the docs and howtos on the net don't mention that, which leads > to confused and frustrating users; those in the end might be one of > multiple problems why they switch to another distribution. > > > I think the more "correct" solution (read to the end) would > > be to somehow prioritize the kernel-devel package (possibly multiple) > > that matches the installed kernel(s). > > That's not a solution, that's solving the problem for some users and > ignoring others (those that use kernel-PAE for example). > "The kernel-devel package that matches the installed kernel(s)" would include kernel-PAE-devel matching kernel-PAE, in this fantasy land I invented. > > > [...] > > CU > thl > -Dan > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fed...@leemhuis.info > > <mailto:fed...@leemhuis.info>> wrote: > > > > On 09.06.2015 21:04, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > I've noticed that when dkms is installed, it's not grabbing the > right > > > kernel-devel package as a dependency. > > > > Because that's not possible with ordinary dependencies (might be > > possible with soft dependencies [Suggests, Enhances etc]) unless we > > change something in the kernel packaging (see below). > > > > > Instead, it grabs > > > kernel-debug-devel. This occurs on Fedora 21 and 22, and I'm not > sure > > > why. > > > > Because all kernel*devel package provide kernel-devel iirc. > > > > > Anyone have any idea why this is happening and a way to work > around it? > > > > Create something like a meta-package "kernel-devel-all" that depends > on > > all available kernel-devel packages (kernel-devel, kernel-PAE-devel, > > kernel-debug-devel, ...) for the arch in question; then add > "Requires: > > kernel-devel-all" to the akmods and dkms packages. That's messy and > > creates overhead for users, but that's afaics the only way it will > work > > for everyone; otherwise you'll always run into situations where a > > kernel-devel package for one kernel variant gets installed while you > are > > running different variant. Example: You get kernel-devel via some > > dependency in akmods or dkms; but you are running kernel-PAE on your > > i686 machine, so building modules with akmods or dkms will fail, as > > that's requires kernel-PAE-devel. > > > > HTH; CU, knurd > > -- > > devel mailing list > > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > > > > > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
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