Axel.Thimm at ATrpms
Jul 19, 2008, 2:36 PM
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Heads-up: renaming kmdls for F9 due to rpmlib bug
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Hi,
rpmlib has difficulties in parsing packages whose name ends with
.<arch>. kmdls' names by design end with the uname -r which on F9
happens to end with .<arch>.
If you do have kmdls installed try
rpm -qa | grep kmdl
and then try
rpm -q foo-kmdl-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64
or similar. rpm will claim that it doesn't have that package, which is
a bug in rpm/rpmlib.
For circumventing the bug the F9 kmdls were rebuilt without the .<arch>
in the name. This should go rather unnoticed (hopefully). The new
kmdls will *not* obsolete/remove the old ones to avoid redownloading
kmdls just for the fun of renaming. The next kernel update will the
automatically purge away the old kmdls anyway.
The old names are still provided internally, so the old trick
yum install foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
will continue to work.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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