[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs spec-file kernel-detection

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 10:04 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Alexander Bergolth <leo@strike.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > The only problem I see when using (only) file dependencies, is that some
> > rpm-repositories don't have dependencies on files included in their
> > index. E.g. it's an option to "genbasedir" when creating an apt-repository:
> >
> > -------------------- snip! --------------------
> >   --bloat            Do not strip the package file list, needed for some
> >                      distributions that use non-automatically generated
> >                      file dependencies
> > -------------------- snip! --------------------
> >
> > So when trying to install the kernel-module using apt without having the
> > corresponding kernel installed, apt won't be able to suggest the
> > appropriate kernel. (If the kernel is part of a repository that was
> > built without the --bloat option.)
> 
> What about yum repositories?  (Or is that the same thing?)

They're not the same thing and yum (rpm-metadata) repositories include
all of the file dependencies and therefore can solve for any/all file
dependencies. Moreover, apt-rpm in current development can use
yum-repository metadata instead of the apt-only format.

-sv