[patch 1/7] Fix kernel_{conflicts,obsoletes,provides}

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 07:11:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:08 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > > If you try and use e.g. kernel_obsoletes, you'll soon find
> > > > that it's actually kernel__obsoletes you currently need :-)
> > > 
> > > So you want kernel to have an Obsoletes: that kernel-foo do not get?
> > 
> > Yes; kernel-PAE.i686 obsoletes kernel-xen.i686 and kernel.x86_64
> > obsoletes kernel-xen.x86_64.
> 
> But you don't want all kernel* to obsolete kernel-xen?  Any special reason?

If you install kernel.i686, we don't want kernel-xen.i686 to be
considered for removal because only kernel-PAE.i686 has Xen DomU
support.

Cheers,
Mark.




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