Bug 973781

Summary:	joystick-support requires non-PAE modules
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Wes Hardaker <wjhns174>
Component:	joystick-support	Assignee:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Wes Hardaker 2013-06-12 17:42:32 UTC

Description of problem:

The joystick-support module properly requires the kernel-modules-extra, but this doesn't actually work on a PAE based kernel because the kernel-PAE-modules-extra needs to be included instead (or at least too)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  3.8.13-100.fc17.i686

How reproducible:

  Easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a PAE based kernel
2. install joystick-support
3. modprobe jsdev
   # which fails

Actual results:

  # modprobe fails with unable to find the module

Expected results:

  # modprobe succeeds and loads the module (and creates /dev/input/js*)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bruno Wolff III 2013-06-12 18:26:55 UTC

kernel-PAE-modules-extra does provide kernel-modules-extra, so in theory installing joystick-support should be able to grab the correct package.It does pick up the correct one for me. This is also what gfs2-utils does.

Do you have a mix of PAE and non-PAE kernels installed on that machine? Or perhaps the running kernel doesn't match the version of kernel-PAE-modules-extra that was installed?

Comment 2 Wes Hardaker 2013-06-13 04:27:38 UTC

I do have both PAE and non-PAE kernels on the machine.  That might trigger it to only install the non-PAE version of modules-extra?

Comment 3 Bruno Wolff III 2013-06-13 16:55:44 UTC

Right. Just installing one version of kernel(-PAE)?-modules-extra satisfies the dependency. I don't think there is a good way around this. In your case once you install a PAE version that will keep getting updated.

I think this is just a limitation of how the dependency system interacts with being able to have multiple kernels installed.

I'm going to close this, but if you think you have a good idea on how to fix it, you can reopen it. (Though mostly likely a fix would be needed for rpm.)