[Fedora-packaging] Updated kernel-module-packaging example with ndiswrapper (Was: example kernel-module package)

[Jack Neely]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:24:46AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:00 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:12 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:47 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There are variables like build host, build time, file timestamps, file
> > > > modes, --define's passed to the srpm build, possibly other buildsys
> > > > configuration variations etc.  All of which are sort of cosmetic, but
> > > > nevertheless result in a different source rpm.
> > > 
> > > I'm really not worried about cosmetic changes. None of these things
> > > should affect the binary packages generated from that src.rpm. 
> > 
> > --defines end up in various dependencies of the source rpm, which does
> > not matter as long as one doesn't use its dependencies for anything, but
> > the specfile's instead.  (This is not limited to these packages.)
> > 
> > The original question remains though; what to do with the srpms?
> > Discard or overwrite the ones already in the repo?  My +1 to the former,
> > or more generally: never overwrite any package in the repository.
> 
> Personally, since the buildsystem is going to have to treat
> kernel-module-* packages differently, I'd like to see it build them like
> this:
> 
> When a make build is done in kernel-module-foo/FC-3/, the buildsystem
> assembles the sources and makes a SRPM. It then looks at a list (either
> generated at buildtime, or preexistant) of the released kernels for
> FC-3, and iterates through each of them, running rpmbuild --rebuild
> --define "kver $VERSION". At the end of the loop, we should have all the
> binary packages and a single SRPM.
> 
> ~spot
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+1

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