[mythtv-users] Re: ATRPMS: SMP packages with apt-get distr-upgrade on non SMP machine?

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:39:00PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> The following suggestions at apt-get dist-upgrade are puzzling to me:
> 
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   apt cups cups-libs glib2 gtk2 hotplug libgpg-error librpm4.3 libxml2
>   libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxml2_2 lirc-lib lm_sensors mysql mysql-devel
>   mysql-server rhn-applet rhnlib rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python
>   sane-backends selinux-policy-targeted system-config-samba
>   system-config-services up2date up2date-gnome vim-minimal yum
> The following packages will be REPLACED:
>   kernel-module-alsa-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (by alsa-kmdl-2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
>   kernel-module-video4linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (by
>   video4linux-kmdl-2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   alsa-kmdl-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel-module-alsa-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp
>   kernel-module-video4linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp kernel-smp#2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>   libglib-2.0_0 libgmodule-2.0_0 libgobject-2.0_0 libgthread-2.0_0 nptl-devel
>   pythonabi video4linux-kmdl-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> 31 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 2 replaced, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> Have the normal and smp packages been changed so that I should have SMP
> packages on a non smp machine?
> 
> Linux saruman.hugo.vanderkooij.org 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linu
> 
> Any insight would be appriciated.

apt does not know what kernel you are running or have even installed,
so upon upograding, if a package is required it picks the first one
available. So when alsa is upgraded/installed it need a kernel module
for alsa and doe not minimize the number of packages to install by
looking at already installed kernels, but picks the first in its
index.

At least that's what I've seen and think applies here as well. You can
test the theory by installing kernel modules with

apt-get install foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
[apt-get install foo] optional, if foo has userland parts.

If it still shows up there must be something wrong :/
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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