Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Radek Holy
- Original Message - From: Neal Gompa ngomp...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:48:19 PM Subject: Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Kalev Lember
On 06/12/2015 02:40 PM, Radek Holy wrote: 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. The OR

Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
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

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Radek Holy
- 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

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Neal Gompa
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

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: ​Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case. ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in place (it is evolving) nor are impact/consequences clear not are the

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case. ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case. ATM,

Re: Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

2015-06-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo