On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 01:10:58PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Will this handle the rpm db correctly? Meaning after the install will rpm still think there is a missing dependency? If this happens I think you get a warning anytime you use yum/dnf. > > >> (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 _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
