yum kernel-devel problem

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 15:45 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > I have the 1740_FC5 kernel installed, but when I just downloaded the
> > > kernel-devel rpm, it was 1743_FC5 and yum didn't complain.
> > > 
> > > Is this okay?
> > 
> > Why should yum complain?
> 
> Differing version of -devel and installed package normally causes a
> complaint.

Only because the packager tells it to because the -devel package really
is dependent on the base package. kernel[-smp,-xen0,-xenU]-devel is in
no way dependent on kernel[-smp,-xen0-xenU].

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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