How to reinstall kernel modules with opkg?
Vasco Névoa
vasco.nevoa at sapo.pt
Sat Nov 1 17:03:18 CET 2008
Distro: FDOM (Fat_and_Dirty_OM.200809_20081023.rootfs.jffs2)
Hi.
I'm fiddling with kernels and modules, and I think I tripped over a very
nasty situation.
When I do "opkg install -force-reinstall kernel-modules", it installs
just the main package, and not the modules themselves.
I have no simple way of installing the kernel modules, unless I do them
one by one. (!!!)
The chain of dependencies looks alright from the bottom up:
$ opkg whatdependsrec kernel-module-ppp-generic
Root set:
kernel-module-ppp-generic
What depends on root set
kernel-module-bsd-comp
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-ppp-generic
kernel-module-ppp-async
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-ppp-generic
kernel-module-ppp-deflate
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-ppp-generic
kernel-module-ppp-mppe
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-ppp-generic
kernel-module-ppp-synctty
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-ppp-generic
kernel-modules
2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
depends on kernel-module-bsd-comp
task-base-ppp 1.0-r67.02 depends on kernel-module-ppp-async
task-machine-base 1.0-r67.02 depends on kernel-modules
task-base 1.0-r67.02 depends on task-machine-base
task-openmoko-linux 1.0-r72 depends on task-base
But it just fails in the top down direction:
$ opkg whatprovides kernel-modules
Collected errors:
* What provides kernel-modules
* kernel-modules *
$ opkg install -force-reinstall -recursive kernel-modules
Reinstalling kernel-modules
(2:2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01) on
root...
Downloading
http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/Om2008.8/neo1973/kernel-modules_2.6.24+git75969+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01_neo1973.opk
Configuring kernel-modules
(and that's it)
Can anybody clarify, please?
Thanks.
Vasco.
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