https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113601
Ian Kent ikent@redhat.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Ian Kent ikent@redhat.com --- (In reply to Matthew Miller from comment #1)
See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2014-March/010083.html
I thiink the only reason autofs has this requirement is that it needs to run on a kernel newer than or equal to 2.6.17. So, I'm moving this bug to autofs.
Of course, having that kernel package installed doesn't mean that one is running under that kernel. Docker obviously demonstrates this, but also, there's no reason one couldn't have a kernel 2.6.17 package installed but be running 2.6.16 since the system wasn't rebooted.
However, all of that seems pretty much moot now, since we're long past the required kernel version in Fedora and even back to RHEL 5. My strong recommendation is to just remove the "Requires: kernel" line.
(Another option would be to use "Conflicts: kernel < 2.6.17", but that still has the conceptual problem with package vs. running kernel. I say just drop it.)
Fair enough, I'll drop it.