Bug 162308

Summary:	dkms should Require: kernel-devel package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alex Lancaster <alex>
Component:	dkms	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Alex Lancaster 2005-07-02 09:27:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
In Fedora Core 4 the headers and Makefiles have been split out of the main "kernel "package into a separate "kernel-devel" package, which may not necessarily be installed.  dkms cannot rebuild modules upon reboot into a new kernel without those headers, so dkms should have "Require: kernel-devel" in it's spec file to enable correct functioning.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dkms-2.0.5.2-4.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove kernel-devel package if installed on FC4 system (yum remove kernel-devel).
2. Install dkms.
3. Add a new package which uses dkms such as kernel_ppp_mppe.
4. Reboot.
  

Actual Results:  dkms cannot build the kernel module on the fly at reboot because it can't find /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build directory

Expected Results:  When dkms was yum installed it should have also installed kernel-devel.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alex Lancaster 2005-07-02 09:30:15 UTC

The kernel_ppp_mppe package comes from:

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-4.phtml

Comment 2 Alex Lancaster 2005-07-02 09:35:07 UTC

In fact the page mentioned above, had to add a note to explicitly install
kernel-devel when it really should have been installed automatically upon dkms
install:

"2005-07-02 Added requirement for kernel-devel package, thanks to Ted Rule, Paul
Howarth, and epsilon."

If kernel-smp is also installed then kernel-devel-smp should also be installed,
but I don't know how you would clue the spec file into that.

Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2005-09-12 18:07:22 UTC

Just pinging to see whether this bug has been seen at all.  The latest dkms
(built Sep 05, 2005) has not addressed this issue.

Comment 4 Tom "spot" Callaway 2005-09-12 18:20:35 UTC

kernel-smp-devel actually provides:
kernel-devel = 2.6.13-1.1549_FC5smp

So, I think kernel-devel is enough of a Requires.

Fixed in 2.0.6-2