Re: Kernel dependency issues

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:43:35AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
 > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:08:46 -0500, Christopher wrote:
 > 
 > > After a "yum update --skip-broken", I now have the following
 > > kernel-related packages installed:
 > 
 > How did you create this list? The main kernel packages are missing!

if you have kernel-debug installed, rpm -e kernel will succeed.
It will however lead to situations like this one, so isn't
advisable.

 > > kernel-debug-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
 > > kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
 > 
 > These two packages have disappeared in the newer build:
 > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=73968
 > (old: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=70131 )

For rawhide kernels, there are no '-debug' packages, because debugging is
enabled by default.

	Dave

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