Hi,

I just spotted a problem on a SL system where the root file system is on xfs. After updating the kernel booting into the
new kernel failed because the initrd had no xfs support.

The problem is caused by the fact that "yum update" first updates the kernel and afterwards updates kernel-module-xfs:

yum update
...
Running Transaction
  Installing     : kernel                                            [1/8]
...
  Installing     : kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5             [6/8]
...

The mkinitrd script executed by the post install script of the kernel package does not have xfs.ko of the new kernel
available. Therefore it can not build the new xfs.ko into initrd.

This can be of course fixed manually by running either

# yum update
# /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5

or

# yum install kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5
# yum update

However, I would like to have it fixed in "yum update".

Can this be built into the kernel-module yum plugin? Troy?

Or does anybody see how it can be fixed in the kernel-module-xfs rpm?

Cheers,

	Urs