On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Radek Holy <rh...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Thorsten Leemhuis" <fed...@leemhuis.info> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:19:10 PM > > Subject: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel > packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing > > the right kernel-devel package) > > > > Josh Boyer wrote on 12.06.2015 13:55: > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > [...] > > > As I said, there are no great solutions here. > > > > A "works most of the time"-solution would be: Install kernel-devel by > > default. But I'm not seriously suggesting that, because I fully agree: > > It's not a great solution. > > > > Did anyone(¹) look at soft dependencies in rpm? Can they make our > > tools install the kernel-devel packages in the variants that match the > > kernel variants installed? I suspect they are made to solve problems > > like this, but I'm not sure; and I don't know how far soft dependencies > > are supported in out current stack of packaging tools. > > > > CU > > knurd > > > > (¹) no, I'm not looking at you Josh > > AFAIK, it is discussed these days whether weak dependencies can be used to > express package preferences: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/WeakDependencies IIRC, > there were some concerns but I don't remember what was the conclusion. > -- > Radek Holý > Associate Software Engineer > Software Management Team > Red Hat Czech > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo <https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1203#comment:6>. The main problem would be how to structure it to trigger appropriately for this case. Is it even possible to generate a soft dependency at install time? Otherwise, how do we ensure the "right" one is picked? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
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