Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67213
plain "kernel" packages seem to miss libredhat-kernel provide
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:51 EST
Stumbled across this while testing some up2date changes on a 2.1AS chroot on my laptop. It looks like the i686 glibc packages requires libredhat-kernel [root@sludge RPMS]# rpm -qp --requires glibc-2.2.4-26.i686.rpm glibc-common = 2.2.4-26 basesystem libredhat-kernel.so.1 /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade /sbin/ldconfig rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 but none of the plain "kernel" packages provide this: [root@sludge RPMS]# rpm -qp --provides kernel-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm module-info kernel = 2.4.9 kernel-drm = 4.1.0 kernel = 2.4.9-e.3 [root@sludge RPMS]# rpm -qp --provides kernel-2.4.9-e.3.athlon.rpm module-info kernel = 2.4.9 kernel-drm = 4.1.0 kernel = 2.4.9-e.3 This potentially breaks up2date, depending on if the default install only includes "kernel" packages or not. If "-smp", "-enterprise" or "-summit" kernels are included, they provide libredhat-kernel.
Has this been looked at yet? In a brief glance, it appears that it is not a problem in Taroon, because glibc does not require any kernel stuff. Is this something that is likely to get fixed in the next errata?
However, it is still true that libredhat-kernel is not in the plain kernel package in Taroon. But, I'm not entirely sure it's supposed to be, since it's also not in -smp.