On 16/06/15, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:31:27AM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > 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. > > In this case, since it's only a Requires(pre), RPM doesn't mind. > I was talking with the dnf developers today. They said there is no direct way to achieve this. But we can create a plugin which will remove it (if it exits) after any transaction. Another option is to try to put the package in the exclude list for the transaction. I will try for this method first. Kushal -- Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer CentOS Cloud SIG lead http://kushaldas.in _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
