kernel-core pulls linux-firmware

[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.05.2014 19:28, schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> where is this dependency from?
> 
> From the explicit Requires(pre) in the kernel-core RPM.
>
>> after confirm you can happily "yum remove linux-firmware" without
>> any problems and the next kernel update pulls it again which is
>> not how a normal dependency works because it would not allow
>> to uninstall the dependency without remove the pulling package
> 
> That's why it's Requires(pre)

ah - i missed that bit all the years "playing" with rpm-SPEC's

>> hence why i have on our virtualized infrastructure for years a empty
>> meta-package with provides/obsoletes but given now that we have
>> "kernel-core" and "kernel-drivers" this dependecy should be only pulled
>> only by "kernel-drivers"
> 
> No. The kernel-core package contains drivers that require firmware in
> linux-firmware.  I'm not dropping that dependency.  Your existing
> solution should continue to work

thanks for clarification and the hyperfast feedback
anyways - thank you for your great work on Fedora kernels!

i am fine with my workaround while my repo-strcuture needs some optimization
to have that package in a own private repo only consumed by virtual machines,
currently it's excluded here and there to not hit phyiscal machines

by not knowing that much of kernel package internas i thought that could
have been a piece better targeted for the new sub-package