Am 01.05.2014 19:28, schrieb Josh Boyer: > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> where is this dependency from? > > From the explicit Requires(pre) in the kernel-core RPM. > >> after confirm you can happily "yum remove linux-firmware" without >> any problems and the next kernel update pulls it again which is >> not how a normal dependency works because it would not allow >> to uninstall the dependency without remove the pulling package > > That's why it's Requires(pre) ah - i missed that bit all the years "playing" with rpm-SPEC's >> hence why i have on our virtualized infrastructure for years a empty >> meta-package with provides/obsoletes but given now that we have >> "kernel-core" and "kernel-drivers" this dependecy should be only pulled >> only by "kernel-drivers" > > No. The kernel-core package contains drivers that require firmware in > linux-firmware. I'm not dropping that dependency. Your existing > solution should continue to work thanks for clarification and the hyperfast feedback anyways - thank you for your great work on Fedora kernels! i am fine with my workaround while my repo-strcuture needs some optimization to have that package in a own private repo only consumed by virtual machines, currently it's excluded here and there to not hit phyiscal machines by not knowing that much of kernel package internas i thought that could have been a piece better targeted for the new sub-package
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