On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:50:25AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
On 10/27/2010 11:02 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> Not that I feel like arguing to save dangling symlink, what happens in the
> case when you install kernel-devel-$KERNVER but there is no
> kernel-$KERNVER installed to match? Does the rpm fail because
> /lib/modules/$KERNVER doesn't exist? Or are we going to add a dependency
> to prevent that from happening?
I think that in this situation, it is permissable for both kernel and
kernel-devel to own /lib/modules/$KERNVER. I'd rather have that
duplicate directory ownership than a dangling symlink, and the Packaging
Guidelines permit it.
I didn't realize rpm would allow it. Let's try it then and see who
screams. :-)
Cheers,
Don