[CentOS] kmod-xfs and weak-updates
Tony Schreiner
schreian at bc.eduFri Nov 14 02:14:21 UTC 2008
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Karanbir Singh wrote: > Tony Schreiner wrote: >> My question is: kernel 2.6.18-92.1.13 is now the oldest one present >> on my system and will be removed next update. Do I need to worry >> about that? Will it take the remaining kmod-xfs with it? > > Only files directly owned by the kernel will get removed when the > kernel rpm is removed from your machine; which, as a policy holds true > for any rpm. This is one of the many reasons why packagers are > encouraged to list-and-own specific components and not complete > directory tree's when they setup the spec files. > My concern came from the fact that xfs.ko belongs to the kmod-xfs package and older versions kmod-xfs had a dependency on a kernel version and would be removed by yum when that kernel was removed. I guess that the latest kmod-xfs-0.4-2 does not; which I suppose I could have checked for myself in the first place. Tony
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