source vs. sourcecode

[Cristian Gafton]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> we tested it with yum and yum upgrade pulls the new thing down.
> The reason is that it's now noarch and yum can't do i386->noarch
> updates, while with a name change it should work....

I think this is a very weak reason for having to inflict this sort of 
change...

Cristian
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