FC7 Kernel upgrade

[M A Young]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Anduin Withers wrote:

> > Missing Dependency: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1 is needed by package kernel
>
> Despite what others have said:
>
> rpm -qRp kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.i686.rpm does list:
>
> mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1
>
> According to the e-mail sent to fedora-test, mkinitrd-6.0.9-7.1 was released
> to testing yesterday (6/12/2007). No accompanying e-mail has been sent to
> package-announce, nor is mkinitrd-6.0.9-7.1 available in updates.
>
> So, in a sense, it is a long standing bug, though not one with yum or rpm
> (or easily correctable, short of actually checking things before pushing
> them to updates).

But there is a bug in yum, because it should refuse to install the
kernel without the updated mkinitrd package, because that is what the
kernel says it requires, and by the accounts in this thread yum is
sometimes installing the kernel regardless. The correct behaviour is to
refuse to upgrade (without the new mkinitrd package).

There is a second bug in the release process which allows a package to be
released without the requisite dependent packages.

	Michael Young