kernel-devel dependency
Tyler Larson
fedora-devel at tlarson.com
Mon Aug 29 20:07:40 UTC 2005
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Should kernel-devel be made to depend on the same version of the kernel?
> I have kernel-devel installed, and every time a new kernel comes out the
> corresponding version of kernel-devel becomes installed as well - but
> the old package does not get uninstalled.
>
> Unless there is a specific reason why it is desirable to have
> kernel-devel-X installed when kernel-X is not, having the former
> Requires: the latter would make maintenance tidier, I think.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Michel
>
This sounds like a job for the pkgsToInstallNotUpdate option in up2date. I
don't know the equivalent for yum.
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