[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kmod-sierra testing release (Version 1.7.34)

[Steve Clark]

On 09/23/2010 06:56 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> Announcing the release of an updated kmod-sierra package in the EL5
> elrepo-testing repository:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-sierra
>
> This package provides an updated sierra driver, version 1.7.34, and is
> kABI compatible with all kernels from 5.0 (kernel-2.6.18-8.el5)
> upwards.
>
> It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a range of
> releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any one
> specific build.
>
> End user testing of this package (&  subsequent feed-back) will be
> appreciated and would also speed its eventual promotion to the main
> repository.
>
> NOTE: Due to the appearance of a bug in el5.5, *updating* of kmod
> packages is broken with el5.5. To apply this update, users of el5.5
> are advised to update as follows. This will then also update the
> module-init-tools package (which has had an erroneous upstream patch
> reverted):
>
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update kmod-sierra
>
> If you have already updated and the package is no longer working,
> please reinstall the package:
>
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo-testing reinstall kmod-sierra
>
> Thank you,
>
> The ELRepo Team.
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I tested and posted my results to the bug tracker


http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=79

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