On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:26 +0200, D. Stolte wrote: > Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Should kernel-devel be made to depend on the same version of the kernel? > > I have kernel-devel installed, and every time a new kernel comes out the > > corresponding version of kernel-devel becomes installed as well - but > > the old package does not get uninstalled. > > > > Unless there is a specific reason why it is desirable to have > > kernel-devel-X installed when kernel-X is not, having the former > > Requires: the latter would make maintenance tidier, I think. > > > > Regards, > > > > - Michel > > > The kernel-devel package is needed for building external kernel modules. > Perhaps you can just uninstall this package. > Yes, the question is whether it ever makes sense to have kernel-devel-X installed when the kernel package itself is of version Y. Once I'm sure a new kernel is working, I like just to be able to call 'yum remove kernel-oldversion' and have kernel-module-*-oldversion and kernel-devel-oldversion removed through dependencies. - Michel
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