Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package

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(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct