RFD: kernel-devel package improvements

[Warren Togami]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 
> And indeed, RPM isn't able to install both the i586 and
> i686 version of the kernel-devel package, even though
> there are no file conflicts.
> 
> # rpm -ivh i686/kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1208_FC4.i686.rpm i586/kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1208_FC4.i586.rpm
> warning: package kernel-devel = 2.6.11-1.1208_FC4 was already added, skipping kernel-devel < 2.6.11-1.1208_FC4
> error: error reading from file i586/kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1208_FC4.i586.rpm
> 
> Note that the "error reading file" seems to be caused
> by something inside RPM, since I can cat the file just
> fine.
> 
> I really don't know what the nicest way to fix this bug
> would be, so I guess I'd throw it out for discussion. The
> naive way would be to add the architecture to the name of
> the package - but that's butt ugly and sure to break things
> left and right.
> 
> Any other ideas ?

My thought is that "multiple" isn't as important as "any".  We need the 
ability to install any kernel-devel of a specific target architecture, 
version and release.

apt is able to install any specific version of a package with "apt-get 
install kernel-VERSION-RELEASE" even if the one you are specifying is 
not the newest.  Is yum able to do this too?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com