Firmware

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 9 14:01:59 UTC 2008


Jarod Wilson (jwilson at redhat.com) said: 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Well, it means you may end up including various firmwares on architectures
where they're irrelevant. But as long as you're willing to take the installed
space hit, it's not a huge deal.

Bill




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