Am 05.05.2014 14:36, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > 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. in fact on a VM with only "kernel-core" installed "yum remove kernel" wroks the same way as all the years before
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