RFD: kernel-devel package improvements

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 31 04:49:05 UTC 2005


> 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?

should work just fine. all the ver-rel.arch options are able to be
specified on the cli.

If you started using yum instead of apt you might learn that faster.

-sv





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