Re: FC2 kernel quality

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 08:10 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2004, 22:25 +0200 schrieb Enrico Scholz:
> > fedora leemhuis info (Thorsten Leemhuis) writes:
> 
> > > How to solve the problem with updated kernels and the needed headers
> > > for those?
> > 
> > ??? Just add 'kernel-devel' to apt's 'Allow-Duplicated'; yum has
> > probably something similar. So it won't be a problem to install
> > multiple 'kernel-devel' packages.
> 
> IIRC correctly this is a special patch (BTW, it was from you, or) in
> apt fedora us -- yum does not have something AFAIK.
> 

What?
installonlypkgs allows you to make a list of packages that should not
'update' but only 'install'

it's in the man page. It even explains it. And if the package provides
kernel-module then that occurs automatically, just like with up2date.

-sv