Bug 146162 – RFE: remove the explicit kernel dependency

Bug 146162 - RFE: remove the explicit kernel dependency

Summary:	RFE: remove the explicit kernel dependency

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2005-01-25 13:55 EST by Enrico Scholz
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:52 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-10-03 16:33:52 EDT
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Description Enrico Scholz 2005-01-25 13:55:54 EST

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 14:51:30 EST

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 02:37:18 EST

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 16:33:52 EDT

It's a conflicts ATM.

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