On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 16:42:11 +0900,
"Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay, I poked around in the yum source, yum docs and kernel packages a
bit. So yum (and some testing confirms, dnf too) does not check the
package names but the provides (obviously, thinking about it). The
actual magic being that both kernel and kernel-core provide "kernel".
If that is still the case once the patch is merged from copr to
Fedora, no changes to yum or dnf should become necessary. Which would
probably leave us with "anaconda must allow for installing only just
kernel-core instead of kernel (when kickstarting)" as the only
necessary change to Fedora. I guess.
The behavior is controlled by the installonlypkgs setting in yum.conf.
From the man page:
installonlypkgs List of package provides that should only ever
be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into
this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enter‐
prise, kernel-smp, kernel-modules, kernel-debug, kernel-unsup‐
ported, kernel-source, kernel-devel, kernel-PAE, kernel-PAE-
debug.
I believe kernel-modules-extra also got added to the default relatively
recently. But that change doesn't seem to have made it to the documentation.
(That package provides installonlypkgs(kernel-module), so there might
be some extra magic related to that provide.)
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