FC2 kernel quality

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Thu Sep 30 20:33:24 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:16:30PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Another issue might be the kernel packaging which is very inefficient.
> There is no reason to include the kernel-sources/headers in the base
> 'kernel' package, because:
> 
> * it wastes 20-30MB of diskspace and 6000 inodes on the root-filesystem
> * there is no way to prevent this e.g. with %_netsharedpath
> * it makes cross-compiling of kernel-modules impossible (e.g. you can
>   not build i686 modules on an i586 because you can not install the i686
>   kernel)
> * it is incomplete: the kernel-headers alone are useless so at least a
>   'Requires: cpp' would be needed in the kernel package. But minimal
>   systems need the kernel only but not cpp.
> 
> A possible solution would be the creation of a separate subpackage with
> the kernel-headers. These are to be installed either directly at
> /lib/modules/.../build, or (preferred) under /usr/src, /usr/share/... or
> ... and make /lib/modules/.../build a symlink to this place.

Couldn't agree more, but this has been discussed here and finally
files under /dev/null. Check out for instance

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg01050.html

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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