Fedora 22 is out, Fedora 23 is coming :)

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 16 15:12:06 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:31:27AM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> > > It's unfortunate that the dependencies can't be expressed in a richer
> > > way here. It's not that the kernel requires that package... the
> > > hardware does. Even if we remove it in the cloud kickstarts, it gets
> > > pulled back in on update, because it's a "Requires(pre)".
> > Create a dnf plugin to ignore it.
> Will this handle the rpm db correctly? Meaning after the install will
> rpm still think there is a missing dependency? If this happens I think
> you get a warning anytime you use yum/dnf. 

In this case, since it's only a Requires(pre), RPM doesn't mind.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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