Bug 122366

Summary:	kernel utils STILL needs to be split up!
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dan Hollis <goemon>
Component:	kernel-utils	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3	CC:	mgarski, pfrields
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Description Dan Hollis 2004-05-03 19:16:35 UTC

Description of problem:
kernel-utils is a conglomerate of 3 completely separate and unrelated
utilities. this package really should be split up, for the reasons
noted in bug #100489

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download smartctl from sourceforge.
2.build rpm from included specfile.
3.try to install the rpm.
  
Actual results:
get package conflicts with kernel-utils for no good reason.

Expected results:
smartctl shouldnt be bundled in with unrelated programs in an rpm. (i
dont think any rpm should ever do this, really)

Additional info:
This bug has been open and pending since 2003-07-22. It should be
simple to resolve (simply break the package up). Is there a good
reason why this hasn't been done?

Comment 1 Dan Hollis 2004-05-03 19:18:40 UTC

*** Bug 100489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marcin Garski 2004-11-30 11:58:49 UTC

I totaly agree with Dan!

Another similiar request (almost the same, but for excluding only
smartmontools, so I dunno to close it as duplicate) bug #108569

Comment 3 Dan Hollis 2004-12-02 19:26:54 UTC

Ok, kernel-utils is getting silly now.

We have cpuspeed, dmidecode, irqbalance, microcode_ctl, hw_random,
readahead, and smart-utils all in the same package, despite the fact
these are all completely separate and completely unrelated utilities.

this bug has been open since 2003-07-22.

please stop the madness!

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2005-01-11 00:16:25 UTC

done.