On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 12:32 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
It's the same story: Parallel installation.
Indeed - and to be exact: safely upgradable parallel installation.
We have for example libpng-1.2.8 and libpng10-1.0.18 in FC5. Rpm would allow installing them parallerly if they were just libpng-1.2.8 and libpng-1.0.18 so why do we rename it? To allow them to be upgraded separately, an alleged 'rpm -Uvh libpng-1.2.9' would remove both versions.
I haven't seen anybody arguing we should drop those compat packages and rely on yum plugin to deal with situations like the above correctly... so why are kernel modules any different?
So, why is the kernel any different? Let's identify the differences between the kernel and other packages and then decide whether kernel-modules fit the same criteria as the kernel or normal packages.
-Toshio