Re: [Bug 225969] Merge Review: kernel

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:50:25AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On 10/27/2010 11:02 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> > Not that I feel like arguing to save dangling symlink, what happens in the
> > case when you install kernel-devel-$KERNVER but there is no
> > kernel-$KERNVER installed to match?  Does the rpm fail because
> > /lib/modules/$KERNVER doesn't exist?  Or are we going to add a dependency
> > to prevent that from happening?
> 
> I think that in this situation, it is permissable for both kernel and
> kernel-devel to own /lib/modules/$KERNVER. I'd rather have that
> duplicate directory ownership than a dangling symlink, and the Packaging
> Guidelines permit it.

I didn't realize rpm would allow it.  Let's try it then and see who
screams. :-)

Cheers,
Don
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