[Fedora-packaging] questions regarding kernel-devel and kernel-smp-devel packages

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Mar 29 03:56:16 UTC 2005


Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> Never say 'never'... Although 'install' will be the right choice for a
> lot of systems, there are other ones where 'upgrade' is desired (not
> only for 'kernel*devel', but for 'kernel' also). E.g. for vservers it
> does not make much sense to install a second kernel.

For corner cases like vservers or buildroots, we should have a 
kernel-999 fake package.  It wont ever change.  Simple.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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