Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

[Neal Gompa]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case.
>>>
>>> ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in place (it is evolving)
>>> nor are impact/consequences clear not are the prototypical use-cases of
>>> soft/weak-deps clear.
>>>
>>> @Thorsten: I do not think, weak/soft-deps are of use in your case.
>>> Unfortunatley, I do not have solution, either.
>
>
>> What do you mean by the technical infrastructure for it is lacking?
>
>
> E.g. /usr/bin/rpm still lacks the --what* command-line options corresponding
> to soft/weak deps.
>
> This issue was mentioned the rpm maintainer in an FPC meeting (IIRC, 3 weeks
> ago), when we were discussing soft/weak-deps but nothing seems to have
> happened since.
>
> Therefore I just (I could have done so earlier, but have been on vacation)
> filed an RFE against rpm:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231247
>
>
> Ralf
>
>
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Doesn't libsolv/hawkey handle this within itself, though?


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