On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:33:05PM -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Providing 'kernel-modules' on the other hand... i don't think anything
> requires 'kernel-modules' so it might be okay to make kernel-devel
> provide that but i still seems to me like potential double-meaning to
> what 'kernel-modules' means since kernel-devel doesnt actually include
> a single kernel-module.
>
> Maybe Dave Jones can be poked into making a comment about this.
Adding either of the provides seems like a rather ugly hack.
up2date already has the smarts to installonly the -devel package,
so I'm of the opinion yum should be fixed to do the right thing too.
Jeremy is rebuilding yum as I type for tomorrows rawhide to
take care of this issue.
Yes but the real question is "Where does this information belong?" I
dont think that these things should be managed ad-hoc by each competing
package manager but instead internalized into the packages themselves
somehow for scalabiltiy and adaptability purposes.
It has often been suggested to add a new rpm tag for this
purpose. E.g. you could have
UpdateMode: (installation|alwaysupgrade)
or
AutoUpgrade: no
rpm 4.4 would be a good candidate to get this in.