On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:26:59 -0400,
Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[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.
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 don't think that can be made to work with dependencies. To work kernel-core
would need to depend on kernel, so that installing kernel-core would require
kernel which requires kernel-modules, which is a problem.
In most cases old kernels get removed by updates, so most people aren't
going to try to be removing specific old kernels by hand. For those that
do, using kernel-core instead of kernel isn't a big deal. The main thing
is that the change should be documented in the release notes (and perhaps
other places) to avoid confusion.
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