On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 13:00, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> >
> > That might still be better than getting screwed after a failed kernel
> > upgrade and a reboot.
>
> I agree that 'kernel' needs to be in the skiplist for upgrading, but the
> skiplist shouldn't apply to querying. So maybe it's rpm that needs the
> fix?
>
Before, we had kernel as a package name, that's why you could query it
with rpm -q.
rpm -q is traditionally used to query package names. rpm provides this "fix",
you must use --whatprovides. :-) With regard to what -q was supposed to do,
you can't "fix" rpm, IMHO.
-- Geoff.
