On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:43 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:08:46 -0500, Christopher wrote: > > > After a "yum update --skip-broken", I now have the following > > kernel-related packages installed: > > > > kernel-debug-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-debuginfo-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-firmware-2.6.28-0.121.rc7.git5.fc11.noarch > > kernel-headers-2.6.28-0.121.rc7.git5.fc11.x86_64 > > How did you create this list? The main kernel packages are missing! rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort I don't have regular "kernel" installed because "kernel-debug" is just the kernel with debugging features enabled, and I have been experiencing oopses. > > kernel-debug-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > These two packages have disappeared in the newer build: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=73968 > (old: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=70131 ) > > Could be that these sub-packages are obsolete but have not been obsoleted > anywhere. It's a common mistake package maintainers do, especially since > there is no Fedora policy on strict "Obsoletes". That leads to broken > dependencies during updates. OK, I filed this issue as bug 476236. > > kernel-debuginfo-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 > > kernel-firmware-2.6.28-0.121.rc7.git5.fc11.noarch > > kernel-headers-2.6.28-0.121.rc7.git5.fc11.x86_64 > > > > 1.) Note that kernel-firmware and kernel-headers are out of sync with > > the other packages. Should this be allowed by the dependency checker? > > Yes, I think so. If the dependencies are lax, a broad range of > package release is sufficient. The kernel requires a pretty strict > version of kernel-firmware, and glibc-headers only requires sufficient > kernel-headers to be installed. Filed as bug 476238. > > 2.) From their descriptions, it looks like kernel-headers and > > glibc-headers are only needed if you are compiling code. Are they safe > > to remove if I know I don't do that sort of thing? If so, shouldn't > > they have "-devel" in the name? I remove all -devel packages to keep my > > system clean. > > Decide yourself based on the package description. > > I'm surprised one can "rpm -e glibc-headers" while keeping glibc-devel > That looks a bit strange. I'll leave you to file a bug on that if you think it's wrong. I think I'll remove kernel-headers just to keep things tidy. Thanks for the sanity check! -B. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
