FC5: Kernel updates don't work

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 06:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the trick to get kernel updates functional with apt-get on FC5?
> 
> On a machine having FC5 installed:
> # rpm -qa 'kernel*' 'kmod*'
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.2.6.16_1.2122_FC5
> 
> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> # apt-get install kmod-nvidia#1.0.8762-2.2.6.16_1.2133_FC5
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    kernel#2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 (2.6.16-1.2133_FC5)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    kernel#2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 (2.6.16-1.2133_FC5)
>    kmod-nvidia#1.0.8762-2.2.6.16_1.2133_FC5
> (1.0.8762-2.2.6.16_1.2133_FC5)
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/15.7MB of archives.
> After unpacking 40.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> ...
> 
> WTH?

Are you using the apt package from FE? Kernel updates still don't happen
without the additional Lua-wacko-hack-stuff included in the
FE-package... For many other distros the contrib/allow-duplicated works
just fine but not for any RHL/RHEL/FC system because of the way kernel
is packaged :-/

	- Panu -