kernel-source vs. kernel-sourcecode (please revert)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:02:45PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:16 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Scott Sloan writes:
> > > This was pointed out over on fedora-list
> > > 
> > > the lastest kernel src package is kernel-sourcecode. Although I can
> > > understand what the package contains, neither apt or yum knew it was an
> > > update to kernel-source. Is the naming switch from source to sourcecode
> > > an Error or a new naming standard?
> > 
> > As I recall the source RPM is now built as noarch, and up2date was losing 
> > its mind trying to figure out how to update {i386,x86_64}.rpm to a 
> > noarch.rpm, so the name change was the easy way out.
> > 
> > Along the same lines, when I updated FC1 to FC2 on x86_64, I ended up with 
> > Mozilla 1.4 i386 RPMs, from FC1, “overlayed” with Mozilla 1.6 x86_64 RPMs 
> > from x86_64.  Messy.
> 
> Random changes are a royal pain. If there is a reasonable, doable
> alternative, it should be reverted. 
> 
> Imagine how many documents and guides are out there that have sentences
> along the line "make sure you have the kernel-source RPM installed. Run
> the command 'rpm -q kernel-source' ... yadda yadda".

http://www.google.com/search?q=kernel-source+rpm+-mandrake+-suse seems
to come up with 42000 entries for Red Hat relevant distros.

> There are probably lots of auto-build-some-3rd-party-kernel-module.sh
> scripts that do sanity checking and will now break.
> 
> There is going to be a lot of future wailing and gnashing of teeth.
> 
> Change is OK, but it shouldn't be done lightly.

The change is wrong. If yum or any other resolver is not doing the
right thing, it should be fixed there. After all
yum/apt/rcd/up2date/... should copy rpm's behaviour on computation of
upgrade paths.

And yum already has support for this (or not?). Just set exactarch to
0 in yum.conf. exactarch is a problem anyhow, when for instance athlon
packages get consolidated into i686 package like the kernel in FC2.

Please, don't work around a bug by introducing another. Enforcing name
changes due to arch changes is wrong.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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