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Description of problem: rhel6/vnc-server has a dependency chain which is linked all the way to the kernel. this makes it unwieldy for a chroot. this wasn't a problem with rhel5/vnc-server. so this is another issue keeping us using rhel5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tigervnc-server-1.0.90-0.17.20110314svn4359.el6.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. use yum --installroot to install vnc-server in a chroot. 2. you get kernel too 3. doesn't happen in rhel5
tigervnc-server doesn't depend on kernel. However it depends on mesa-dri-drivers which depends on libdrm which depends on kernel. Reassigning to libdrm for further inspection.
We can probably drop the libdrm kernel requirement in RHEL6.3, so we should propose this for it.
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this is a trivial fix to the spec file, I'm suggesting it for fast track, not 100% sure this is correct way to do that.
libdrm specfile has Requires: kernel >= 2.6.29.1-52.fc11 I think it should be changed to Conflicts: kernel < 2.6.29.1-52.fc11 Logic is preserved, but unnecessary components are not pulled during build process either.
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vadym's suggestion seems sound and worthwhile, or indeed even dropping the kernel requirement
its already dropped in the 6.4 builds
ty!
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