[mythtv-users] Re: Newbie Help with vmlinux and dependencies

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 06:18 US/Pacific, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:47:24PM -0700, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 01:05 US/Pacific, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>>>> Have you installed the kernel-2.4.20-20.9.<your arch>.rpm package,
>>>>> it's required according to the package information of ivtv.
>>>
>>> That should not be necessary, and if it were you should kick my ass 
>>> to
>>> fix it. ;)
>>
>> I'm currently kicking his ass. ;)
>>
>> We're working on it, but it isn't happening on Axel's end. I've got 
>> two
>> slightly different variations with single and dual proc machines on my
>> end though. We'll keep everyone posted...
>
> Many thanks to Jarod for finding a nasty apt bug (you need to swap the
> order of the to be installed packages, otherwise apt blindly installs
> any package matching the constraints even though the following package
> would suffice), and for disclosing some atrpms bug dependecies for
> flavoured kernel & kernel modules (e.g. smp or bigmem users, probably
> only Jarod ;).

Well, I seem to recall some folks running dual PII systems out there... 
;)

But yes, very unfriendly new bug in apt...

> Jarod will update the guide to include the apt workaround, and I will
> rebuild flavoured modules.

I've sent a revised guide off to Mark, which should show up on hist 
PVRHW site in due course. Soon to come is an 'upgrading your system' 
section, for upgrading both your ATrpms kernels and kernel modules, as 
well as upgrading MythTV. I'm gunning to have it ready for consumption 
before the next official MythTV release...

> In the meantime do the following:
>
> a) Install with
> apt-get install something-kmdl-`uname -r` something
> instead of
> apt-get install  something something-kmdl-`uname -r`

This, or the new method Axel and I have settled upon, which involves 
setting an environment variable, since the uname -r method won't work 
on flavored kernels, due to differences in kernel and kernel module 
naming conventions. This is all covered in the latest guide rev.

> b) If you use smp or bigmem kernels, some kmdl falsly depend also on
>    the 'up' kernel (the normal one). Install that kernel, too, until I
>    will have fixed it.

The masses of smp MythTV users can probably manage in the mean time... 
;p

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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