On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:17 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:22 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > Whatever is decided you probably want to have up2date default to the > > > same behavior for consistency. > > > > make kernel-devel provide 'kernel' or 'kernel-modules' and it will > > happen automatically. > > Out of curiosity, isn't having to have each package manager front-end > special case the kernel kinda grotesque? Should maybe packages that can > be and prefer to be parallel installed over updated have an RPM header > that states this, so that any package renames or new packages that need > this behavior will just work? > > One place it would be useful, for example, would be driver package for > out-of-tree drivers (yes, GPL ones, too). There is a simple way to make this work, already applied by lots of 3rd party kernel stuff (modules, devel etc) package(r)s: put the uname of the kernel in question to the package's Name: field. This would also work with the kernel-devel packages. No special cases needed in any tools. The uname-in-name scheme is not too pretty looking, and it's (very) mildly annoying whenever one has to type it manually (eg. to rpm -e one), but other than that, it Just Works(tm).
