| Summary: | bogus dependency "linux-firmware" | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Harald Reindl <h.reindl> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-04-11 00:19:14 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
(In reply to comment #0) > Package kernel-3.3.1-2.fc16.x86_64 requires linux-firmware >= ('0', '20120206', > '0.1.git06c8f81') > Package kernel-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 requires linux-firmware >= ('0', > '20120206', '0.1.git06c8f81') > > can we please have removed this dependency? No. It's not bogus. > virtual servers are perfectly happy without That might be true, but the bnx2 and bnx2x drivers that come in the 3.2 and newer kernels require the firmware in the version of linux-firmware specified. Without it, they don't work. Also, the firmware for the newly open sourced ATI drivers is contained in there and would be required for anyone using one of those cards. ok, solved it with a meta-package
[root@buildserver:~]$ cat /rpmbuild/SPECS/linux-firmware-dummy.spec
%global checkout 06c8f81
Summary: metapackage to satisfy kernel-dependencies on vmware-servers
Name: linux-firmware-dummy
Version: 20120206
Release: 0.1.git%{checkout}%{?dist}
BuildArch: noarch
Group: System Environment/Libraries
URL: http://www.thelounge.net/
License: GPL
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
Provides: linux-firmware = %{version}
Provides: kernel-firmware = %{version}
%description
metapackage to satisfy kernel-dependencies on vmware-servers
%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
%files
%clean
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
%changelog
* Wed Apr 11 2012 Reindl Harald <h.reindl>
- initial build
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Package kernel-3.3.1-2.fc16.x86_64 requires linux-firmware >= ('0', '20120206', '0.1.git06c8f81') Package kernel-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 requires linux-firmware >= ('0', '20120206', '0.1.git06c8f81') can we please have removed this dependency? virtual servers are perfectly happy without found this by try to remove the package where yum did not complain about deps, stress-testet some server and removed the package finally from all installations i found this warning only by randomly "package-cleanup --problems"