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

[Jarod Wilson]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:49 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> 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... ;)
> 
> Why?

I'm going to assume you're asking "why doesn't davej like that idea",
since the mv desire is probably obvious (compliance w/packaging
standards). Basically, because cvs sucks, and all revision history goes
bye-bye if we do the move. Though really... Dave, how big a deal is that
really if we do it this early in rawhide? You can always go to the attic
if you *really* need to see some historical info on the spec, and we'll
have plenty built back up by the time we get to F8...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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