Upgrade Kernel using smart

Upgrade Kernel using smart

[Tarek El-Sherbiny]

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Hi All,

When I typed the command "smart upgrade" smart detected over a 100 kernel
module that needs to be installed.
Most of these modules are not relevant and not installed on my system.
How do I tell smart to check and upgrade only  for the currently installed
modules?

Thanks,

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*Tarek*

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Re: Upgrade Kernel using smart

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Tarek,

On Monday 06 January 2014 18:13:39 Tarek El-Sherbiny wrote:
> When I typed the command "smart upgrade" smart detected over a 100 kernel
> module that needs to be installed.
> Most of these modules are not relevant and not installed on my system.
> How do I tell smart to check and upgrade only  for the currently installed
> modules?

I don't know why this would be happening, but smart just uses the dependencies 
declared in the RPM packages in order to determine what to install; so if it's 
looking to install packages you do not currently have installed in the image, 
in the absence of bug(s) that means somewhere a dependency has been added and 
smart is just responding to that. If it looks like it's installing all kernel 
module packages that probably means the "kernel-modules" meta-package is being 
brought in by something else. I would suggest using "smart query" on the 
target to find where this dependency exists.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre