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

[Phil Perry]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> 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.
> 

I assume the default behaviour stems from kernel specific kmods where 
each kmod must be rebuilt against each and every kernel, hence you would 
have a kmod version installed for each specific kernel that is installed.

Of course this makes no sense for kABI-tracking kmods :-)