Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri May 29 15:53:49 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:45:18PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>drago01 wrote:
>> So we might get in a situation: pushing a kernel update will cause
>> broken deps for users of kmod-foo -> preventing them from installing
>> updates -> security risk. (outdated packages)
>
>How does putting those kmods in a third-party repo fix this? And they WILL
>and DO end up there. Even if you get RPM Fusion to ban kmods (which I doubt
>will ever happen), they'll just migrate to another third-party repo. You
>can't eliminate kmods entirely, no matter how hard you try. Having them
>within Fedora would actually allow syncing the updates to kernel updates by
>using a Bodhi grouped update, which would make this much less of an issue.

I am respectfully requesting that you start an entirely new mail thread if you
really want to continue this discussion.

josh




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