[mythtv-users] Re: Ping Jarod. A Clue?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 23 17:19:33 EST 2003


On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:32, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 12:55, Michale wrote:
> > [root at myth files]# rpm -qa 'ivtv-kmdl-*'
> > ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at-0.12-cvs20031125a_M179_cs_16.rh9.at
>
> That means you've got the right kmdl installed. Not sure if that's
> good or bad. :)
>
> > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 15:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > > Try 'rpm -q ivtv-kmdl'.  Generally, you leave off the version
> > > > numbers when querying RPM packages.
> > >
> > > These are no version numbers ;)
>
> Yes, those are part of the actual package name, as kernel modules are
> tied to particular kernel versions. The version number comes later.
>
> In the above example, the package is ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at
> and the version is 0.12-cvs20031125a_M179_cs_16.rh9.at. Ugly, but
> necessary, since every kernel needs its own kernel module.

Ah, right, I forgot about that...

-JAC



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