kernel-devel: should yum install, not update?

[Michael Favia]

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Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:33:05PM -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> 
>>Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>>
>>> > Providing 'kernel-modules' on the other hand... i don't think anything
>>> > requires 'kernel-modules' so it might be okay to make kernel-devel
>>> > provide that but i still seems to me like potential double-meaning to
>>> > what 'kernel-modules' means since kernel-devel doesnt actually include
>>> > a single kernel-module.
>>> > 
>>> > Maybe  Dave Jones can be poked into making a comment about this.
>>>
>>>Adding either of the provides seems like a rather ugly hack.
>>>up2date already has the smarts to installonly the -devel package,
>>>so I'm of the opinion yum should be fixed to do the right thing too.
>>>Jeremy is rebuilding yum as I type for tomorrows rawhide to
>>>take care of this issue.
>>
>>Yes but the real question is "Where does this information belong?" I
>>dont think that these things should be managed ad-hoc by each competing
>>package manager but instead internalized into the packages themselves
>>somehow for scalabiltiy and adaptability purposes.
> 
> 
> It has often been suggested to add a new rpm tag for this
> purpose. E.g. you could have
> 
> UpdateMode: (installation|alwaysupgrade)
> 
> or
> 
> AutoUpgrade: no
> 
> rpm 4.4 would be a good candidate to get this in.
> 

this sounds like a much more reasonable solution (in any form it takes)
than making each depsolver take on the task individually.

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