Once upon a time, Honza Silhan <jsilhan@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was trying to figure out why I had kernel-debug* packages installed, > > and tracked it to xl2tpd wanting "kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko)". That is provided > > by kernel-debug-modules-extra and kernel-modules-extra; dnf choose to > > install the -debug version (which then pulls in the debug kernel as > > well). > > > > I looked in bugzilla, and there are already two bugs (at least) for > > this: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192189 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284228 > > > > The first one is almost 2 years old! That means that anybody that wants > > L2TP support (which is in some default package sets I believe) gets > > unneeded debug kernels. Surely something can be done to fix this? > > > > It seems that the root of the problem is that dnf resolves dependencies > > differently from yum and refuses to change to the old well-known > > behavior. > > Hi, > The root issue is that these two packages provides the same feature > and no other preference is specified. I've reassigned it to xl2tpd to > give DNF hint which package should be preferred. Why is this xl2tpd's problem to solve? They need a module, the point of kmod() dependencies is to specify "I need this". What's the point of kmod() deps if the package has to still specify another package by name? I would think this needs to be solved on the provider side (i.e. the kernel package), or on the dnf side (to follow the well-known yum behavior). -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
