I've been asked (#1429) to upgrade open-vm-tools in F-13. Now, this is causing me some headaches because the latest versions of open-vm-tools need the 2.6.34 kernels (because some of the modules provided by open-vm-tools-kmod were upstreamed in 2.6.34, so the open-vm-tools package no longer ships them, even though they're still needed for 2.6.33). The problem with F-13 is that is spans both the 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 kernels. In other words, if I push a more recent update of open-vm-tools, it will have to include something like Require: kernel >= 2.6.34 forcing the user to upgrade the kernel in order to install open-vm-tools. So the questions: - is this something that is desirable ? Are there still people that blacklist kernel upgrades ? (that was common with proprietary drivers users, but hopefully less frequent now) - can kmods handle a dependency like this, so that 'yum install open-vm-tools' will correctly bring in the kernel updates ? I think the open-vm-tools update is for the Greater Good (tm), but I'm not a huge fan of forcing kernel upgrades on people... -denis