[kernel] more rpmlint: E: useless-provides kernel

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Oct 26 18:56:16 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:37:34PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > >     more rpmlint: E: useless-provides kernel
 > >     
 > >     (This is coming from line 445: Provides: kernel =
 > >     %{rpmversion}-%{pkg_release}\.
 > >     I don't see any reason for this line, as rpm is autoproviding kernel =
 > >     %{version}-%{release} (and %{version} is being set to %{rpmversion} and
 > >     %{release} is being set to %{pkg_release}.)
 > 
 > Really?  rpm is autoproviding kernel = ... in a kernel-smp subpackage?
 > That's what it's there for.

drat. ppc32 is the only thing still doing kernel-smp, so I guess we still need it.

	Dave
 


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