yum updates kudzu but not its relative devel and debuginfo packages

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
> [root at fedora ~]# rpm -qa|grep kudz
> kudzu-debuginfo-1.2.16-1
> kudzu-devel-1.2.16-1
> kudzu-1.2.17-1
> [root at fedora ~]# yum update kudzu-devel kudzu-debuginfo
> [snip]
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        
> Size
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Updating:
>  kudzu-debuginfo         i386       1.2.17-1         development       
> 384 k
>  kudzu-devel             i386       1.2.17-1         development       
> 134 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       2 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 518 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/2): kudzu-debuginfo-1. 100% |=========================| 384 kB    
> 00:01
> (2/2): kudzu-devel-1.2.17 100% |=========================| 134 kB    00:00
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Updating  : kudzu-devel                  ######################### 
> [1/4]
>   Updating  : kudzu-debuginfo              ######################### [2/4]
>   Cleanup   : kudzu-debuginfo              ######################### [3/4]
>   Cleanup   : kudzu-devel                  ######################### 
> [4/4]
>
> Updated: kudzu-debuginfo.i386 0:1.2.17-1 kudzu-devel.i386 0:1.2.17-1
> Complete!

Quite normal for many  *-devel packages.  This is useful on many 
occasions. You can install kernel-devel and build a module for a older 
version of the kernel for example. I think DKMS does this.

regards
Rahul