kernel packaging split up landing in Rawhide

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.05.2014 14:36, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:26:59 -0400,
>  Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud
>> I think you need a little work on this.  Ok, to update (install) a new kernel you execute:
>>        yum  update  kernel
>> that same as it was previously.
>>
>> BUT, if you want to remove that same kernel, for example doing:
>>        yum  remove  kernel-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21
>> will only remove the kernel package and not kernel-core and kernel-modules.  Instead, you need to execute
>>        yum  remove kernel-core-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21
>> to get kernel, kernel-core, and kernel-modules removed.
>>
>>
>> I believe that for regular (non cloud usage) we should just need to deal with the kernel package in both update
>> and remove situations.
> 
> I don't think that can be made to work with dependencies. To work kernel-core would need to depend on kernel, so
> that installing kernel-core would require kernel which requires kernel-modules, which is a problem.
> 
> In most cases old kernels get removed by updates, so most people aren't going to try to be removing specific old
> kernels by hand. For those that do, using kernel-core instead of kernel isn't a big deal. The main thing is that
> the change should be documented in the release notes (and perhaps other places) to avoid confusion.

in fact on a VM with only "kernel-core" installed "yum remove kernel"
wroks the same way as all the years before

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