RFD: kernel-devel package improvements

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Tue Apr 5 15:59:46 UTC 2005


On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 03.04.2005, 23:45 -0400 schrieb Rik van Riel:

> > I am inclined to just not fix this - how important is it to
> > build the external kernel modules for i586 ?

> Yes, probably nearly nobody needs a ati or a nvidia driver for a i586
> machine (but we provide them on livna). But ntfs and/or GFS (or insert
> something that else that may arise in the future) might me of interest.

Note that if you really want to build kernel module RPMs
for both i586 and i686 on the same system, you can always
install the different kernel-devel packages into their
own chroot environments.

This is pretty much a corner case and probably not worth
hacking up RPM over...

-- 
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan




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