kernel-devel: should yum install, not update?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Jan 23 00:36:39 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

 > Providing 'kernel-modules' on the other hand... i don't think anything
 > requires 'kernel-modules' so it might be okay to make kernel-devel
 > provide that but i still seems to me like potential double-meaning to
 > what 'kernel-modules' means since kernel-devel doesnt actually include
 > a single kernel-module.
 > 
 > Maybe  Dave Jones can be poked into making a comment about this.

Adding either of the provides seems like a rather ugly hack.
up2date already has the smarts to installonly the -devel package,
so I'm of the opinion yum should be fixed to do the right thing too.
Jeremy is rebuilding yum as I type for tomorrows rawhide to
take care of this issue.

		Dave




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