Firmware

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 09 June 2008 06:04:08 am David Woodhouse wrote:
> Been playing with how I'd make the kernel package deal with the new
> 'make firmware_install' stuff. Currently looks something like this.
>
> I suspect that (for now) we should make the kernel binary packages
> depend on kernel-firmware?
>
> Should the package own the /lib/firmware/ directory?
>
> Ideally we'll want kernel-firmware to be a .noarch.rpm, but we can't get
> that until we start to build it from a separate srpm.
>
> Other comments?

We actually *can* make it noarch without much effort -- remember, the kernel 
is a special beast that actually does get a noarch build pass done on it for 
kernel-docs. No reason kernel-firmware couldn't be spit out from the same 
build run, so far as I know.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com