Hacking modversions
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Wed Mar 2 20:39:54 UTC 2005
*snip*
>
> kernel-module-foobar 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4-module_foobar_version_042
> (meaning version 042 of foobar built against 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4)
>
> and it says
>
> Requires: kernel = 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4
> Conflicts: kernel > 2.6.10-1.1154_FC4
>
> Now, next time user types 'yum update', suddenly
>
> kernel-2.6.10-1.1155_FC4
>
> is available. However, kernel-module-foobar is not updated yet so the
> update transaction fail (ok, maybe it's something other than Conflicts,
> expert packagers would know).
*snip*
Or will yum just bail out "hey there is a conflict here, so i won't do
ANYTHING AT ALL!!!*?
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