On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 24.06.2014 12:05, schrieb Dridi Boukelmoune: >> Because I totally agree with you and IIRC this kind of stuff has been >> added over time in yum. Also IMHO some of those features are very >> fedora/el specific, and allows yum to work only on fedora and >> downstream distros. Yum expects the kernel rpm to be named "kernel", >> which is tied to how Fedora packages kernels > > that's not entirely true, otherwise it won't work the way it > does on Rawhide with only "kernel-core" installed, it's pretty > sure a matter of rpm-provides and in that case any distribution > cae name the kernel-package "linux" as long it provides kernel > in it's metadata > > [root@rawhide ~]# yum remove kernel > Skipping the running kernel: kernel-core-3.16.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc21.x86_64 > No Packages marked for removal That is probably related to the "running kernel detection" which is even more distro-specific. What I had in mind is from yum.conf(5): > installonlypkgs > List of package provides that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in > particular fall into this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, > kernel-smp, kernel-modules, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported, kernel-source, kernel- > devel, kernel-PAE, kernel-PAE-debug. My point was more about fedora-specific assumptions in yum, and I'm not running rawhide so maybe kernel-core is now part of the defaults for `installonlypkgs`. I hope this clarifies what I meant. Dridi > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
