[elrepo-devel] a few comment about elrepo's packages

[Phil Perry]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> 
>> In summary, the main differences over this distro shipped kmodtool are:
>>
>> 1. Provides:         kabi-modules = ${verrel}${variant}
>>
>> kmodtool normally has a Provide for kernel-modules that prevents yum
>> from updating kmod packages. However, for a kABI tracking kmod package,
>> updating (rather than installing kernel dependent versions) makes sense
>> so we changed the Provide to kabi-modules to facilitate this behaviour
>> in yum.
> 
> that's a nice feature. although it's a yum bug. it's not documented and 
> not working as should have to be. even if a package provide a 
> kernel-modules it should have to updating. i already fill a bug about it 
> #502140 but no one realy care about it.
> 

I responded to your bug report to show where it's included. It's not a 
bug, it's expected behaviour, it just wasn't documented (the 
documentation probably just lags the code base which I guess is not 
unusual in FOSS). So the bug is in the documentation as that is what 
needs to be corrected.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502140