Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 14:51 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to write a yum plug-in: wait-for-kmod >> >> For quite a few users, the kmods from RPMFusion are a must. Take >> broadcom wireless for example. Now, the kmods g

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-27 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 11:03 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That's what the akmods are for... Maybe, but the akmods are not usable in all cases. For instance, you don't want akmods on servers, specially since it pulls in GCC. The akmods do fail once in a while, when the changes between kernels

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 14:51 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a yum plug-in: wait-for-kmod > > For quite a few users, the kmods from RPMFusion are a must. Take > broadcom wireless for example. Now, the kmods generally lag the kernel > updates by a few hours: people who do

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-25 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 12:12 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > The yum mailing lists are down? > > seem up to me > > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum > > -sv Ah! I'll head there. I tried both the devel and users lists yesterday and got "site not responding" for them. (I had even come d

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-25 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:22:12 +0530 Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 14:51 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to write a yum plug-in: wait-for-kmod > > > > For quite a few users, the kmods from RPMFusion are a must. Take > > broadcom wireless for example. Now, the

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > - Get the currently running kernel > - Get a list of installed kmods - Or installed akmods > - In postresolve hook >        - check if the transaction set has kernel marked for update >        - if yes, check if all installed kmods have updates

Re: Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-25 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 14:51 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a yum plug-in: wait-for-kmod > > For quite a few users, the kmods from RPMFusion are a must. Take > broadcom wireless for example. Now, the kmods generally lag the kernel > updates by a few hours: people who do

Need help with writing a yum plugin

2012-03-25 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, I'm trying to write a yum plug-in: wait-for-kmod For quite a few users, the kmods from RPMFusion are a must. Take broadcom wireless for example. Now, the kmods generally lag the kernel updates by a few hours: people who do update their systems in this interval are left without wireless/dis