source vs. sourcecode

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Jun 16 07:08:07 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:59:04PM -0400, Cristian Gafton wrote:
> 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...

I agree. Not having updated kernel-source isn't a big deal either, yet
people who like to build their own kernel entirely complained, and they were
right. ANd the package is for THEM. 
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