[Fedora-packaging] questions regarding kernel-devel and kernel-smp-devel packages
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Mar 28 01:21:41 UTC 2005
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Currently in rawhide at the moment yum treats kernel-devel as installonly
> but kernel-smp-devel package is treated as a normal package when doing updates.
>
> Which is the more correct befault behavior? Do we want multiple
> versions of kernel-devel and kernel-smp-devel packages to be installed
> by default or do we want these packages to update?
We need the ability to install any or multiple kernel-*devel packages in
order to build modules against any target kernel version and arch.
Upgrade is never desired with kernel-*devel.
> If we want multiple versions to install, as default behavior, do we
> want to use a different mechanism then the package name? Like using a
> common provides statement that yum can see and act on.. similar to how
> kernel and kernel-module packages are sensed?
>
Yes. Modifying a list of names in yum is bad. The packages themselves
should tell the dep resolver "Do not upgrade me!"
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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