Bug 462100
| Summary: | RFE: fedorakmod.py should not allow kernel-headers/-docs/-devel to be updated | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hans Ecke <hansecke> |
| Component: | yum-utils | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-09-30 21:39:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Hans Ecke
2008-09-12 16:36:46 UTC
it only blocks the actual kernel package, and not other dependent packages like kernel-headers, kernel-docs and kernel-devel. It should. ...why should it? kernel-devel seems like the only one that _might_ be worth considering, but even then I'm not 100% sure it should be. James- Why does this list of packages make sense to you? kernel-X kernel-doc-Y kernel-header-Y kernel-devel-X kernel-devel-Y Why should I have kernel-doc and kernel-header installed for version Y, when I do not have version Y installed at all? Please note that kernel-doc-X and kernel-headers-X have been removed. I end up with a situation where I have kernel-doc installed for a different version than the kernel I am running. That might even lead to problems when I rely on information in the kernel docs that do not apply to my installed kernel. Does this answer your question? I'm happy to expound further ... Hans Because kernel-doc and kernel-headers don't depend on the version of the running (or installed) kernel, AIUI. So if you are, say, developing for RHEL-5 and running on Fedora 9 ... then AIUI you can just install the docs/devel sub. packages for the RHEL-5 version of the kernel, no? I appreciate that you don't think it's optimal in your case, but I'm really not sure that kmod should be _adding_ deps. to things instead of just obeying the ones that are there (it might well not do that, I don't know). In a similar way there are a bunch of packages where you can install a different foo and foo-devel, and it's not optimal ... but yum shouldn't be fixed to add deps. where there are none. Well, first we are not talking about standard yum but about an optional plugin. In other words, the local sysadmin has already requested a non-standard behavior. Second, why are kernel-doc and kernel-headers not parallel-installable, just like kernel-devel? I would not mind so much if the package manifest after yum would be kernel-X [kernel-Y blocked by fedorakmod] kernel-doc-X kernel-doc-Y kernel-header-X kernel-header-Y kernel-devel-X kernel-devel-Y At least that would be consistent. (I understand possible problems with multiple version of kernel-headers) Lastly, I really don't want to argue with you. This bug/RFE is rather unimportant. If somebody could apply the patch from bug#462099 that would be a much bigger deal... Thanks! Hans You can change installonly local yourself ... rel-eng would need to be consulted to change the default for everyone. Fair enough. And this bug is documentation... Have a good one Hans |