Rawhide: kernel & Yumex

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:49:46PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
 
 > yumex should be handling kernels using the same code from yum.
 > 
 > the point is still the same - unless something magical has happened
 > there is no code in yum to migrate from kernel.i686 to kernel-PAE.i686
 > w/o putting in some sort of obsolete. And worthy of note - obsoletes
 > don't take arch specifications.

Obsolete isn't the right thing to do, because if you have a 686 CPU
that can't do PAE, having kernel obsoleted by kernel-PAE is the wrong
thing to do.

 > we should definitely discuss how this upgrade is supposed to work,
 > though I'm inclined to suggest:
 > 
 > yum upgrade
 > #if you think you need the PAE kernel
 > yum instal kernel-PAE
 
If you have kernel.i686 installed, yum update should update it to kernel.i586
Migrating from .i686 -> .i686-PAE is something needs to be done either
by anaconda, or by hand. (Unless you want to add a 'detect PAE' plugin
to yum too).

Before we made the changes to the kernel package, I was told that the 686->586
case would be handled by yum already, but it seems that isn't the case?

	Dave

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