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Versions mismatch of kernel-uek kernel-uek-headers kernel-uek-devel

746586Aug 13 2012 — edited Aug 13 2012
Hello,

Is it normal that versions of these packages differs?
I wasnt aware of that, but kernel-uek-headers version is 2.6.32 while kernel-uel and kernel-uek-devel are 2.6.39.

I was notified about that when I installed virtualbox additions:
[root@ena-testbed-01 cdrom]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.18 Guest Additions for Linux.........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.1.18 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following  
module compilation fails then this could be the reason.
The missing package can be probably installed with
yum install kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-200.29.2.el6uek.x86_64

Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ]
Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ]
Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
...
...
Good news: it not seems to break functionnality at this time.
I tried couple of yum clean all + yum update without any changes...

Yum info of packages:
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.39-200.29.2.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 14 10:50:56 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@localhost ~]# yum info kernel-uek kernel-uek-devel kernel-uek-headers 
Loaded plugins: security
Installed Packages
Name        : kernel-uek
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.6.39
Release     : 200.29.2.el6uek
Size        : 99 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : ol6_UEK_latest
Summary     : The Linux kernel
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
License     : GPLv2
Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
            : Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
            : of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
            : input and output, etc.

Name        : kernel-uek-devel
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.6.39
Release     : 200.29.2.el6uek
Size        : 27 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : ol6_UEK_latest
Summary     : Development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
License     : GPLv2
Description : This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules
            : against the kernel package.

Name        : kernel-uek-headers
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.6.32
Release     : 300.32.1.el6uek
Size        : 2.2 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : ol6_latest
Summary     : Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
License     : GPLv2
Description : Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface
            : between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs.  The
            : header files define structures and constants that are needed for
            : building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the
            : glibc package.
Are the repos in problem?

Thanks
Bruno Lavoie
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