Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org >> [mailto:centos-devel-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ross S. >> W. Walker >> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:18 PM >> To: The CentOS developers mailing list. >> Subject: RE: [CentOS-devel] drbd dependency problem >> >> >> Actually, I think there might be 2 issues here. >> >> 1) DRBD package providers are too general >> 2) kernel package providers are not general enough >> >> With extras repo disabled my dependency check now produces this: > > Ok, I of course figured out how to install by first installing the > cman-kernel module then cman, but if cman had a dependency on > cman-kernel and cman-kernel had a dependency on kernel shouldn't > these just roll-up properly? > > The same can be said about drbd. > > These kernel modules should also provide just the explicit modules > they carry and not list themselves as the whole provider of > /lib/modules/... > > Well that's my $.02 at least, maybe these dependency issues are > just a manifestation of the current version of RPM or some > inherited upstream brain damage. Well ... the whole kmod thing is covered here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/KernelModules So, this is HOW it was designed. I don't really agree with all the dependencies / provides / requires ... but they have decided what we should do. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070718/bcbd4b27/attachment-0007.sig>