Currently in rawhide at the moment yum treats kernel-devel as installonly but kernel-smp-devel package is treated as a normal package when doing updates.
Which is the more correct befault behavior? Do we want multiple versions of kernel-devel and kernel-smp-devel packages to be installed by default or do we want these packages to update?
We need the ability to install any or multiple kernel-*devel packages in order to build modules against any target kernel version and arch. Upgrade is never desired with kernel-*devel.
If we want multiple versions to install, as default behavior, do we want to use a different mechanism then the package name? Like using a common provides statement that yum can see and act on.. similar to how kernel and kernel-module packages are sensed?
Yes. Modifying a list of names in yum is bad. The packages themselves should tell the dep resolver "Do not upgrade me!"
Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
