Attention kernel module project packagers!
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Aug 15 14:12:06 UTC 2006
David Woodhouse schrieb:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Given that we don't want it on Core or Extras, I'm pretty happy to
>> let random 3rd party packager do whatever they want for packaging
>> modules. I'm not interested in dictating how they should handle
>> this ugly hack.
>>
>> Your example about ntfs is not usable w/out the userland
>> (ntfsprogs), which nobody wants to touch due to legal reasons, and
>> would be obsoleted by FUSE anyway where the most recent ntfs
>> support is done entirely in userspace.
>>
>> There are many more things the packaging committee can spend time
>> worrying about. Packaging of kernel modules isn't one of them
>> IMHO.
>
> Yeah, that's a fair point. However, it would be useful if those who
> _do_ care about kernel module packages would come to an agreement
> about how it should be done, and that can be documented somewhere
> central to Fedora -- like on the Fedora wiki.
>
> We can modify our kernel RPM and yum if appropriate in order to
> support that agreed method.
That already happend -- FESCo worked out and agreed on a propsoal last
winter http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/KernelModules
It's working fine.
CU
thl
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