----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thorsten Leemhuis" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:19:10 PM > Subject: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing > the right kernel-devel package) > > Josh Boyer wrote on 12.06.2015 13:55: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [...] > > As I said, there are no great solutions here. > > A "works most of the time"-solution would be: Install kernel-devel by > default. But I'm not seriously suggesting that, because I fully agree: > It's not a great solution. > > Did anyone(¹) look at soft dependencies in rpm? Can they make our > tools install the kernel-devel packages in the variants that match the > kernel variants installed? I suspect they are made to solve problems > like this, but I'm not sure; and I don't know how far soft dependencies > are supported in out current stack of packaging tools. > > CU > knurd > > (¹) no, I'm not looking at you Josh AFAIK, it is discussed these days whether weak dependencies can be used to express package preferences: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/WeakDependencies IIRC, there were some concerns but I don't remember what was the conclusion. -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
