[LU-9850] the patchless client should not allow the patched kernel to satisfy it's dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Critical
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.10.1, Lustre 2.11.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.10.0
• Assignee: Brian Murrell (Inactive)
• Reporter: Brian Murrell (Inactive)

Description

Due to how dependencies work in RPM (and a bug in how kmod RPMs generate their dependency lists), on a node where the server and client repos are both configured, YUM could allow the patched kernel to satisfy the patchless-client RPM's requirements.

Add Conflicts: and Provides: to the kernel RPM and lustre-client RPM to prevent this from happening.

This change also allows one to force the installation of the patched kernel RPM (yum install kernel-lustre) if one desires.