2017-07-24 16:28 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Leemhuis <fed...@leemhuis.info>: > On 24.07.2017 15:53, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2017-07-24 15:28 GMT+02:00 Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org>: >>>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And I still don't know what problem you're trying to solve. Still NAK. > > I guess the bugzilla number in the subject is meant as an explanation: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450577 > > FWIW, I welcome that finally someone is working towards getting this > fixed, as it seems users have a hard time understanding and handling > kernel-devel packages. > > I didn't look to much into this recently, but I think there might be an > easier and better solution: Don't provide variant specific kernel-devel > package at all (like kernel-PAE-devel), just ship one kernel-devel > package that provides the files for all the kernel variants on the > architecture in question (IOW: on x86-32 simply ship the files that > currently are in kernel-PAE-devel in kernel-devel instead & get rid of > kernel-PAE-devel). Sure, kernel-devel gets bigger. But my gut says it's > the better solution (but I didn't check and someone should how much it > grows if we want to go down that route).
Thx Thorsten. First, I apologize to have send a patch that rely on boolean dependencies whereas this is not yet allowed as our packaging standard. I thought it was the case, and I will resubmit with an appropriate notice for a preliminary review (until boolean deps are allowed, hopefully in the f27 timeline). So trying to sum-up. On fedora, kernel-devel installation can be wrong in two ways: - It's not the appropriate variant (PAE,lpae,rt,debug,up,etc) - Both versions mismatch. (one has kernel from fedora-kernel-rawhide-nodebug but kernel-devel from f26-updates (so 4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 =/ 4.13.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc27 mismatch). This patch and bugreport is only meant to address the latter issue, so that when a user issue the following command, the right kernel-devel comes along: dnf update kernel --enablerepo=updates-testing (this fails to grab the kernel-devel from updates-testing, at least without the patch) Like you might have noticed, users could have used the following instead: dnf update kernel\* --enablerepo=updates-testing (there it works and even without using kernel\* at all) But , that's not something one can expect from ours users, (and even from me when distracted). So there is a need to state the appropriate requires (which the patch implements), otherwise the failure is unavoidable. The former issue can be fixed in tools using kernel-devel (akmods,dkms,systemtap,other ?) by using the boolean dependencies such as Suggests: kernel-lpae-devel if kernel-lpae, etc See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1474423 The same restriction might apply to boolean dependencies here. So the plan is to ask for clarification from releng, and implement in the f27 timeline if allowed. Thx for the review. -- - Nicolas (kwizart) _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
