nfs-utils requires modutils, but that is obsolete

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:56:56AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Currently in Rawhide it's impossible to update to the latest udev if
> you have nfs-utils installed, because:
> 
>   Error: Package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.5-11.fc17.x86_64 (@rawhide)
>            Requires: modutils >= 2.4.26-9
>            Removing: module-init-tools-3.16-5.fc17.x86_64 (@rawhide)
>                modutils = 3.16
>            Obsoleted By: kmod-5-4.fc17.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                Not found
> 
> IIUC this suggests either that nfs-utils should be changed to depend
> on kmod (but does this provide all of modutils?) or else kmod should
> be changed to 'Provides' modutils.
> 
> The modutils explicit dependency was added ages ago:
> 
>   * Thu Mar 11 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
>   - rpc_pipefs mounting and aliases are now in modutils; require that 
> 
> whatever that means .. rpc_pipefs is in nfs-utils, so it could be the
> dependency is now bogus.
> 
> Unfortunately removing nfs-utils isn't an option for me because that
> would remove libvirt.

Also reported in BZ:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788264


Daniel
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