FC5: Kernel updates don't work

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jun 14 01:46:34 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 01:14 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > Investigating this issue, another issue surfaced:
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/default.conf
> > contains this:
> > ..
> >  Module-Prefix { "kernel-"; };
> > ..
> >
> > This causes these warning during apt-get update:
> > WARNING: kernel-i686 not available for kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5!
> > WARNING: kernel-drm not available for kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5!
> > WARNING: kernel-headers not available for kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5!
> > WARNING: kernel-modules not available for kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5!
> >
> > Removing it, causes the warnings to vanish.
> 
> The module-prefix thing only works with old kernel-module-foo-`uname -r` 
> style packages used previously on livna.org, it *might* work with other 
> schemes as well but that's pure luck :) So, just disable it.

>  IIRC it's not present in FE package anyway.
You don't recall correctly ... FE's CVS still has it for FE-5 and devel,
and ... removing it probably would break dist-upgrades from FE < 5.

Ralf





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