Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (79 mails)

[Coly Li <coly.li@xxxxxxx>]

Michal Marek Wrote:
> [adding Coly to CC]
>
> Andreas Jaeger napsal(a):
> > Coolo tried to install the ocfs2 packages and failed:
> >
> > can't install ocfs2-tools-1.4.1-23.30.i586:
> >   nothing provides ocfs2-kmp needed by ocfs2-tools-1.4.1-23.30.i586
> ...
> > The problem is that there's no ocfs2-kmp for openSUSE Factory.  What 
> > happened?
> > What should be done?
>
> ocfs2-kmp is the kernel ocfs2 code built as a kmp. It was created for
> SLE11 to be able to ship it separately in the HAE addon. This split is
> not needed for 11.2 (unless Coly wants to maintain the kmp also for
> 11.2), so either ocfs2-kmp should drop the dependency, or we add a
> Provides: ocfs2-kmp to the kernel. Coly, what do you think?

fs/dlm and fs/ocfs2 are not shipped in default opensuse kernel config. If user
DO want to use ocfs2 and dlm in openSUSE kernel, at least he or she should,
1) recompile the kernel (enable ocfs2 and dlm) with
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules sets allow_unsupported_modules as 1
2) and install ocfs2-tools with --nodeps.

Therefore, IMHO only dropping ocfs2-kmp dependence from ocfs2-tools does not
help. My suggestion is, can we place the above explanation in some document ?

How do you think about it ?

-- 
Coly Li
SuSE Labs
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx