Hi Martin,
I'm a little confused, because nothing about what you are talking about matches.
For SL 3.0.3, yum is version 2.0.7-7.SL  This version of yum does the
kernel-module rpm's much better than the 2.0.7-2.SL.  So if you have the older
version, you should try the newer one.

Also, the XFS kernel isn't in the main distribution, it's in the contrib.  So
if you want the XFS kernel-module for openafs, you need to get that out of the
contrib too.
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/i386/contrib/RPMS/xfs/kernel-module-xfs-2.4.21-20.EL.XFS-1.3.3-1.SL.i686.rpm
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/i386/contrib/RPMS/xfs/kernel-module-xfs-2.4.21-20.EL.XFSsmp-1.3.3-1.SL.i686.rpm

And the yum (at least the newer one, I can't vouch for the older one) doesn't
replace kernel-modules-openafs, because that isn't really the name of the rpm,
it is kernel-modules-openafs-<kernel>.   You can have as many of these rpm's
installed as you wish, because they are each named different.

So, for example, if you have the contrib section uncommented out of your
/etc/yum.conf you can do

   yum install kernel-module-xfs-2.4.21-20.EL.XFSsmp

Troy


Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm tuning our PXE kickstart to SL 3.0.3 and observe two things:
>
> 1/ There doesn't appear to be a kernel-modules-openafs set to match the
> kernel(-smp)-2.4.21-20El.XFS rpms.  The yum update puts these on over the
> originals as they are `newer'.
>
> 2/ The install doesn't appear to install the smp version of the
> kernel-modules-openafs rpm when doing the original install.
>
> I can get around (1) using `yum --exclude kernel\* update' but this is
> klunky.
>
> I have not found a (sane) way round (2) yet that can be used in a kickstart
> post-install-called  script.  A hand install of the smp variant works but I
> should not need to do that.
>
> Yum is the version 2.0.7-2.SL, install by the original kickstart.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards, Martin.


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