yum-plugin-kmdl kicks in only if there are other updates available (was: yum-plugin-kmdl problems for atrpms)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:28:06PM -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
> Axel Thimm escribío:
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 07:42:03AM -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
> >> it appears that the yum-plugin-kmdl-0.6-8.fc6.at for atrpms does not
> >> work for the 2.6.20 kernel.  Or at least for the last two kernel
> >> upgrades, it did not add the ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.i686
> >> 1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at nor ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.i686.
> > 
> > Can your provide some more details? E.g. a full yum output and a list
> > of installed kernel and kmdls?

> I wish I had made a copy of the yum transaction.  Sorry.

> After I ran yum, I checked the atrpms site and the
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933 and the ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933 were not
> available.  This am, I ran "yum update" and it returned "No Packages
> marked for Update/Obsoletion".

OK, there is a "slight" issue with yum-plugin-kmdl: Due to the nature
of the plugin architecture it only kicks in if the normal yum
procedure finds that there is something else to update as well.

That is if yum w/o any kmdl support thinks that nothing is to be
updated the yum-plugin-kmdl code is never executed.

Since the kmdls are usually issued very soon after the kernel rpm
update most people update the kernel and the kmdls in one sweep with
yum-plugin-kmdl. And you always have somethingto update to almost
every day. So the chances of

o having update to the latest kernel,
o the kmdls not being yet available at that time
o no other update other than the kmdls exist

are very slim, but did hit you. The upcoming kmdl setup will deal w/o
a plugin at all, so this will not be an issue anymore, and for now,
either wait a day until another regular update is queued in, or use

yum install foo-kmdl-`uname -r`

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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