Bug 146162

Summary:	RFE: remove the explicit kernel dependency
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2005-01-25 18:55:54 UTC

Description of problem:

Please remove the 'Requires: kernel >= 2.6' statement because it
bloats up minimal chroot installations.

As it is possible to have both a working kernel-2.4 and a kernel-2.6
package for testing purposes, the new initscripts could be installed
without problems. But when going back to 2.4, the system will fail to
boot as e.g. lvm does not work anymore.

Therefore, the dependency should be a 'Conflicts: kernel < 2.6' which
will signal in the situation above that kernel-2.4 is not supported.


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

initscripts-8.04-1

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-01-25 19:51:30 UTC

Because various package updaters use install-not-upgrade for the
kernel,  this is problematic; it will break upgrades from a kernel 2.4
system.

Now, if we want to do that....

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2005-01-26 07:37:18 UTC

If it is impossible to remove this dep, we could instead use a bogus
virtual provides package for buildroots that satisfies this dep.
Provides: 999:kernel-999

Bad idea?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-10-03 20:33:52 UTC

It's a conflicts ATM.