On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 22:13 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Hi all, I've been packaging realtime preemption kernels for the Planet
> CCRMA repository for a while and I've run into a problem when trying to
> migrate to using yum on Fedora Core >= 5 (I have been using apt for rpm
> for Planet CCRMA since the beginning of 2002).
>
> The core components of a Planet CCRMA install are a patched kernel, up
> to date alsa drivers and userland utilities and various other small
> programs. All those are installed by installing a meta package that
> contains only dependencies for the required components. Ideally the user
> would do:
>
> yum install planetccrma-core
>
> and be done with it...
>
> The problem is that Planet CCRMA's kernel must/should coexist with the
> normal Fedora kernels, and it is not (generally) higher in
> version-release than the latest Fedora kernel - in this case higher is
> not necessarily better. So yum determines all the dependencies correctly
> and at the last moment decides it is not going to install an "older"
> kernel and bails out.
>
> In the apt world I would get around this problem by specifying a
> "--oldpackage" option in one of the configuration files (which would be
> passed on to rpm). With that the meta package would install all its
> requirements with no complains.
>
> I have not been able to find anything equivalent in yum.
>
> After looking at the source for Fedora Core's yum (2.6.1) I created a
> small patch (attached to this email) for adding this feature. It adds an
> "oldpackage" configuration option (mirroring the name of the rpm command
> line option) to /etc/yum.conf. When set to "1" it will allow for the
> installation of older packages to satisfy explicit dependencies.
>
> Would it be possible to include this in future versions?
> Or is there a better way to accomplish the same thing?
<flame suit on>
Why not use Epoch in your kernel SPEC file?
/Brian/
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