From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:41:07 +0100 Subject: [Cluster-devel] kernel packaging split up landing in Rawhide In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5360C533.50500@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 29/04/14 22:41, Josh Boyer wrote: > Hi All, > > As part of the F21 "Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud" Feature[1], > I've committed and pushed the kernel packaging split up into > kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages. For those of you running > rawhide, this really shouldn't be a major impact at all. When you do > a yum update, you will see "kernel", "kernel-core", and > "kernel-drivers" packages being installed. The end result should be > in line with today's rawhide kernels. > > Note: Unless you're using a typical VM or Cloud image, don't uninstall > the kernel or kernel-drivers packages. The machine may boot with just > kernel-core, but it will lack drivers for a significant portion of > bare-metal hardware without kernel-drivers installed. > > Despite best efforts in testing, it's always possible a bug or two > snuck through. In the event that you do have an issue with this, > please file a bug against the kernel package. > > josh > > [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud Just wondering how this will (or will not) affect kernel-module-extras ? Currently there is a dependency (largely for backwards compatibility purposes) on kernel-module-extras from gfs2-utils and I'm wondering if that will need to be changed (or dropped) as a result of this, Steve.