On Aug 19, 2005, Matthias Saou
<thias(a)spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> wrote:
If only it was as easy as "Requires: ?kernel >= 2.6.12"
:-(
Isn't this pretty much what Conflicts amounts to? Yeah, there are
differences, mostly caused by the fact that the kernel is special and
generally isn't upgraded, but rather installed, and it won't start
running immediately after the upgrade, but rather only after a
reboot. But solving this would require rpm to introduce means to
test requirements not only on installed kernels, but also on the
running kernel. And those would be useful, since there might be cases
in which one really needs to be running a newer kernel to be able to
complete the update of another package. Or something :-)
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