On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 20:44 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: >On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:47 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote: > >>How does this sound? I think this should just "do the right thing" >>without any more configuration than the existing "installonlypkgs=" we >>have today. > >It seems reasonable to me, Seth, what do you think? > I think it still leaves in a bad place for when a kernel module is updated w/o changing kernel versions. if you have: kernel-module ver=1.0.9 release=2.6.10-1ac-15 and an update which is: kernel-module ver=1.1.0 release=2.6.10-1ac-15 so the kernel module has changed version - but not kernel. so it really, actually, needs to be updated. which isn't a problem - except that b/c the pkg name is the same - an update will remove ALL the older versions for that package. so if you have: kernel-module ver=1.0.9 release=2.6.9-1ac-15 installed - then that goes away on an update. Maybe I missed it but I'm not sure how his proposal solves for that case. -sv
