Re: packages which require the kernel package

Re: packages which require the kernel package

[David Smith]

On 03/10/2014 02:22 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> When Fedora is in a container (a la Docker), the kernel comes
> from the host, not the installed package set. I noticed a number of packages
> which actually have a requirement on the kernel package. This isn't very
> helpful, since the installed package says nothing about the running one, and
> forcing the package doesn't help.
> 
> For many of these, the requirement is actually that the running kernel have
> a certain feature, and the hope is that the package version check will do
> it. For others, like ipset, I'm not quite sure -- there's a spec file
> comment that says "This is developed hand in hand with a kernel module", but
> it then just says "Requires: kernel".
> 
> I think quemu-sanity-check may be the only one that actually really wants a
> kernel. Possibly libguestfs too -- I didn't dig too deepy.
> 
> There aren't actually a lot:

...

> systemtap-devel / systemtap-runtime (from systemtap)

I've checked in a change to systemtap's upstream spec file that should
fix this. It should be present for the next rawhide build on Monday.

<https://www.sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=commitdiff;h=92319a32b14defa5c6344314d3a88a1cf2baff71>

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