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

[Farkas Levente]

On 08/29/2009 01:38 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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

and is there any good reason for this?
how can be usable kmod-foo-1.0 and kmod-foo-2.0 at the same time? imho 
the problem here is that there is no reason to include kernel-modules in 
this list.

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