FC5: Kernel updates don't work

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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?

I am using different setups and different version of apt-rpm in
parallel.

Basically, I have FE6's apt-rpm*.rpm rebuilt on FC5 from FE's CVS, but
with a more recent tarball from svn instead of that in CVS.

>  Kernel updates still don't happen
> without the additional Lua-wacko-hack-stuff included in the
> FE-package...

That's what I thought, I had.

>  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 :-/
<sigh/> ... 
What is it which prevents apt to work with FC/FE/Lvn's
current packaging?


Ralf