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Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Fri Sep 26 03:45:16 UTC 2003


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Current up2date will do the install-not-upgrade dance for any
> package that 'Provides: kernel-modules' - I'm guessing similar
> capabilities could be added to apt and yum fairly quickly, and
> such packages ported to provide that...

That's what configuration files are for, apt has had this
capability for ages ;)

   Allow-Duplicated
   {
        "^kernel[0-9]*$";
        "^kernel[0-9]*-smp$";
        "^kernel[0-9]*-enterprise$";
   };


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