Stand-alone kernel module packages now in rawhide.. the dawn of a new era

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Sat Jan 8 12:07:42 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:20 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:50:13 -0500, Build System <buildsys at redhat.com> wrote:
> > New package GFS-kernel
> >         GFS-kernel - The Global File System kernel modules
> > New package cman-kernel
> >         cman-kernel - The Cluster Manager kernel modules
> > New package dlm-kernel
> >         dlm-kernel - The Distributed Lock Manager kernel modules.
> > New package gnbd-kernel
> >         gnbd-kernel - The kernel module for GFS's Network Block Device
> 
> 
> My understanding is these package are pretty much the first packages
> inside Fedora Core
> to provide kernel modules outside the actual kernel package.

I do wonder though why they aren't just patched into the regular kernel
rpm... Would make a lot more sense for something provided in the core
distro....
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