On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:08 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 09:52, Leszek Matok wrote:
Isn't the "kmdls" system meant to be the cure to all of this? Is it even
a hack? I don't even think the package names are truly ugly.
I personally find having the kernel version embedded into the NAME of a
package is pretty damned ugly. I find it ugly in the compat packages we
generate too, but that's a different story for a different day.
Actually it's not a different story.
It's the same story: Parallel installation.
Indeed - and to be exact: safely upgradable parallel installation.
We have for example libpng-1.2.8 and libpng10-1.0.18 in FC5. Rpm would
allow installing them parallerly if they were just libpng-1.2.8 and
libpng-1.0.18 so why do we rename it? To allow them to be upgraded
separately, an alleged 'rpm -Uvh libpng-1.2.9' would remove both versions.
I haven't seen anybody arguing we should drop those compat packages and
rely on yum plugin to deal with situations like the above correctly... so
why are kernel modules any different?
- Panu -
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