On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <Thorsten_Leemhuis@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 26.12.2011 18:01, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I submitted an RFE (bug 770444) to include kernel-modules-extra in the >>> default list of install only packages for yum. >> The entire point of kernel-modules-extra is to get them out of the >> default install. If there are modules in that subpackage that are >> needed by default, then they should be moved back to the main package. [...] > > That's afaics not what Bruno proposes. What he afaics means is: when a > new kernel gets released, than the package kernel-modules-extra (just > like the kernel itself) needs to be installed (like a "rpm -i" would do) > and not updated (rpm -U), otherwise you loose the modules for current or > older kernels on "yum update" every time a new kernel gets released. Ah, indeed. My apologies Bruno, I misread "install only" as "install". Your RFE sounds good indeed. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
