Am 01.05.2014 19:28, schrieb Josh Boyer:
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> where is this dependency from?
From the explicit Requires(pre) in the kernel-core RPM.
> after confirm you can happily "yum remove linux-firmware" without
> any problems and the next kernel update pulls it again which is
> not how a normal dependency works because it would not allow
> to uninstall the dependency without remove the pulling package
That's why it's Requires(pre)
ah - i missed that bit all the years "playing" with rpm-SPEC's
> hence why i have on our virtualized infrastructure for years a
empty
> meta-package with provides/obsoletes but given now that we have
> "kernel-core" and "kernel-drivers" this dependecy should be only
pulled
> only by "kernel-drivers"
No. The kernel-core package contains drivers that require firmware in
linux-firmware. I'm not dropping that dependency. Your existing
solution should continue to work
thanks for clarification and the hyperfast feedback
anyways - thank you for your great work on Fedora kernels!
i am fine with my workaround while my repo-strcuture needs some optimization
to have that package in a own private repo only consumed by virtual machines,
currently it's excluded here and there to not hit phyiscal machines
by not knowing that much of kernel package internas i thought that could
have been a piece better targeted for the new sub-package