Anaconda upgrade bug: leaving old kernel-devel packages in place??
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 14 22:04:21 UTC 2006
Charles Curley wrote:
> I've just hit a curiosity related to Anaconda. I upgraded two machines
> via Anaconda from FC4 to FC5 and only just now discovered that I still
> have several FC4 kernel-devel packages on the upgraded boxes. Is this
> a bug or intentional behavior?
>
> There was a discussion about this late in March; see the thread "slow
> FC4 to FC5 upgrade" on or before 24 March, although I don't think
> anyone considered this to be a bug.
>
> I can't see any reason to retain the prior version's kernel-devel
> packages if the kernels themselves are removed.
>
>
The kernel-devel packages dont have a explicit dependency on its
equivalent kernel packages. This is useful for building modules against
the older kernels and for systems like DKMS (which is Fedora Extras)
Rahul
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