On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/29/2014 05:41 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> As part of the F21 "Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud" Feature[1], >> I've committed and pushed the kernel packaging split up into >> kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages. For those of you running >> rawhide, this really shouldn't be a major impact at all. When you do >> a yum update, you will see "kernel", "kernel-core", and >> "kernel-drivers" packages being installed. The end result should be >> in line with today's rawhide kernels. >> >> Note: Unless you're using a typical VM or Cloud image, don't uninstall >> the kernel or kernel-drivers packages. The machine may boot with just >> kernel-core, but it will lack drivers for a significant portion of >> bare-metal hardware without kernel-drivers installed. >> >> Despite best efforts in testing, it's always possible a bug or two >> snuck through. In the event that you do have an issue with this, >> please file a bug against the kernel package. >> >> josh >> >> >> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud > > I think you need a little work on this. Ok, to update (install) a new > kernel you execute: > yum update kernel > that same as it was previously. > > BUT, if you want to remove that same kernel, for example doing: > yum remove kernel-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21 > will only remove the kernel package and not kernel-core and kernel-modules. > Instead, you need to execute > yum remove kernel-core-3.15.0-0.rc3.git5.3.fc21 > to get kernel, kernel-core, and kernel-modules removed. > >From a kernel.spec standpoint, the only way I'm aware of making 'yum remove kernel' remove the kernel, kernel-core, and kernel-modules packages is to make kernel-core Requires: kernel. If it did that, then you couldn't just install kernel-core, which would defeat the entire point of the Feature the Cloud people wanted. > I believe that for regular (non cloud usage) we should just need to deal > with the kernel package in both update and remove situations. I would love to see patches that accomplish this. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
