Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:33:47AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Right.  When I said I had kernel-core and kernel-drivers, I wasn't
>> being theoretical.  I already did the work in the spec file to split
>> it into kernel-core and kernel-drivers.  The kernel package becomes a
>> metapackage that requires the other two, so that existing installs and
>> anaconda don't have to change (assuming I did thinks correctly).
>> Cloud can just specify kernel-core in the kickstart or whatever.
>
> Does yum's kernel-handling magic need to change to handle this? Probably you
> have already thought of that.

I gave it some thought.  I haven't tested anything.  Existing magic
should work for most installs since there's still a "kernel" package
and that's what yum keys off of.  If/when we do this, I'll certainly
test more carefully to make sure.

That brings up a question though, how often would cloud expect to do a
yum update of individual packages as opposed to just updating the
entire image?  If we expect the 3 kernel magic to work there, then
some changes to yum/dnf may be required given that Cloud would be
explicitly specifying "kernel-core" and not "kernel".

josh