[RFC PATCH] Switch to including config-* instead of kernel-*.config

[Jarod Wilson]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/11/2007 01:37 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> The attached patch switches the kernel rpm over from including the
>> current static kernel-*.config files to instead including the config-*
>> files that are actually in cvs.
>>
>> It means we don't leave kernel-*.config droppings all over the place
>> (following a rebase, its entirely too easy to end up with
>> kernel-2.6.21-*.config and kernel-2.6.22-*.config files laying about,
>> which can sometimes cause odd things to happen), and we don't modify
>> SOURCE files in %prep (see bug 232602), which could otherwise result in
>> repacking an srpm with the same n-v-r with different kernel-*.config
>> files. As a bonus, along the way, this cleans up a number of rpmlint
>> warnings (though there are still a TON to poke at).
>>
>> In the future, this would also make life easier for the RHEL6 and later
>> maintainers, as we typically prefer config changes against the config-*
>> files, rather than against the kernel-*.config files, but (most) non-rh
>> folks don't have cvs access to get at the config-* files right now.
>>
>> Thus far, the only real downside is that it requires moving all the
>> config-* files up to the root of the kernel cvs dir, which is 1) a bit
>> messy and 2) results in losing prior versioning history on those files,
>> since cvs blows.
>>
> 
> 1) No big deal, though.
> 
> 2) There's not much relevant history in there anyway.

My thoughts exactly.

(Hell, I'd even like to 'mv kernel-2.6.spec kernel.spec', but davej
seems to not like that idea so much... ;)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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