On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 08:06:04AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> > Well, and linux-firmware, which isn't needed at runtime but is pulled >> > in for kernel upgrades, and which to my knowledge is not needed in any >> > cloud environments. You might be the right person to talk to about >> > figuring out if we can do anything about this. >> A post install scriptlet that removes the files in the cloud >> kickstarts is about as far as I'm going to go. I'm not dropping the >> Requires from the kernel-core package and leave everyone else in the >> lurch. Another option would be a dummy package that Provides >> linux-firmware, but that also runs the risk of non-cloud instances >> getting it installed since we don't have separate repos. > > It's unfortunate that the dependencies can't be expressed in a richer > way here. It's not that the kernel requires that package... the > hardware does. Even if we remove it in the cloud kickstarts, it gets > pulled back in on update, because it's a "Requires(pre)". Create a dnf plugin to ignore it. >> (The third "option" is a separate cloud kernel package but that would >> make the rework we did in f22 pointless and wasted and we've already >> had that discussion.) > > Hmmmm -- what about making linux-firmware a Requires(Pre) for > kernel-modules instead of kernel-core? Can't, because not all of the modules are in modules, and some of them in core need firmware. josh _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
