seth vidal wrote on Monday 13 September 2004 18:09:
> On the one hand, you can't have kernel depend on an
> optional kernel-firewire package. On the other hand,
> people's systems might depend on it...
>
> AFAIK Yum can't handle situations like this right.
you want to track the version of the kernel and update another package
based on what the latest kernel version is.
No, that's not something yum can do.
How about making kernel-firewire depend on the exact version of the kernel?
Then make sure the updated kernel-firewire package is release before or
simultaneously with the new kernel package. In this case, if you do 'yum
update kernel', won't yum see that that kernel-firewire needs to be upgraded
also? If yum can't do this, how hard would it be to add the logic?
I've not thought this through in any depth, so I won't be surprised, Set, if
there's a good reason you can't easily do this. :)
David