2009/4/8 Richard Shaw <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Nicolas Chauvet <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/4/8 Richard Shaw <[email protected]>: >>> Is this the expected behavior? My understanding is since I have the >>> akmod package installed which appears to basically create and install >>> a RPM package which is equivalent (if not identical) to the kmod >>> package, why does yum keep installing the kmod package? >> You can ask the question the other way. >> Why are you installing akmod when you can get pre-built kmod package. >> >> >> Nicolas (kwizart) >> > > Presumably if there was no need then the package would not exist, akmod is made when you build your own kernel or when you want a special version of a kmod and prevent it from beeing updated. > right? I use it because the kmod packages are not always available wrong - it is usually available "before" the kernel hit the stable repository (which lead to other kind or interaction problem, but could be workarounded by a plugin). > when a new kernel releases. Additionally, although it's not an issue > because I'm on DSL, it would reduce bandwidth usage as I only have to > download the akmod package once. and gcc and kernel-devel, and so on. Imagine you get your kernel module built before you rebooted from a glibc-update. you can fear to have non-functional kernel module despite the rpm built succeeed.
Nicolas (kwizart)
