Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125422
rename of kernel-source to kernel-sourcecode at build 422
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:06:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Breaks upgrade.... Not sure why you did it, but last two test builds have had the new name (kernel-sourcecode vs. kernel-source) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download kernel-sourcecode vs. kernel-source Additional info: Not sure why you changed this name, I did not go through massive email lists to determine if it was predetermined, but using yum or even up2date does not upgrade the kernel-source when the kernel is upgraded.
The updated kernel packages change the kernel-source arch, from i386 or x86_64 or whatever, to noarch. This was making up2date and yum explode for some people, thus the name change to prevent that.
I just updated FC2 with up2date to use 2.6.6-1.427. As stated above, the source did not get updated. I downloaded and installed the kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.427.noarch.rpm On the next kernel release that is recognized by up2date, does anyone know if it will also pick up the updated kernel source?
up2date should pick up the updated kernel source next time, yes
I just manually updated kernel-source since up2date didn't see kernel-source. See the thread here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg03786.html Only thing is, I stumbled across it by accident. I wonder how many people have kernel-source but have no idea that there are updates because up2date doesn't find the new name.
Oops. That first sentence should be: I just manually updated kernel-source since up2date didn't see kernel-sourcecode.
Can a warning about this be put into the changelog or rpm information? I only just stumbled across this bug after looking at a yum repository and spotting the name change after wondering why the kernel source wasn't being pulled in by a nightly update. On the mailing list someone suggests yum upgrade. Yes this pull in kernel-sourcecode but yum upgrade is broken and tries to suck in packages to update to compat-db which it mistakenly thinks obsoletes db4 (bug 123911 possibly won't be fixed in FC2). It's also a shame that the little RHN applet doesn't warn you about this problem (perhaps I should spin off a bug there).
its a bit late to fix this in any way now. (And for FC3 it went away completely anyway)