FC2 kernel quality

Sindre Pedersen Bjordal foolish at fedoraforum.org
Thu Sep 30 23:16:47 UTC 2004


Fedora Core can't base it's settings on some third party driver. 

And besides, NVIDIA drivers doesn't have to require you to compile
anything. Users should use the rpms from http://rpm.livna.org for an
easier install and much easier update when there's a new driver
released. 

tor, 30,.09.2004 kl. 17.32 -0400, skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:28:24 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> > I see the problem. All those users of the nvidia driver will have
> > problems to build the kernel module. And what will they search for to
> > solve the problem: a kernel-source(code) rpm that is will not be part of
> > FC3 (as it seems).
> 
> Fact: All those users who install fedora via the default "Desktop
> Install" option
> don't get the build tools to compile nvidia drivers as it is.  Shall
> we pollute the default install to include all the development packages
> and build tools are there just in case someone wants to build
> something from source?
> 
> The point is, as a packaging policy, the commonly required buildtools
> are not explicitly stated as buildrequirements for most src packages,
> nor for -devel binary packages.  Your going to have to come up with a
> pretty impressive argument to make a need to one specific -devel
> package require cpp explicitly when -devel packages currently in the
> distro do not explicitly require gcc or cpp.
> 
> -jef"112 -devel packages from Core installed and none of them
> explicitly require gcc or cpp which should a kernel-module-devel
> package be different?"spaleta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > > When the case above would be very common, you can make the
> > > header-package part of the base-system but without requiring it
> > > explicitly. So it can be disabled on minimal installations.
> > 
> > Don't understand this. How to solve the problem with updated kernels and
> > the needed headers for those? Add them all to one package and update
> > this every time a kernel-update is released -- this will be a big
> > package after some kernel-updates...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
> > 
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> 
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Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish at fedoraforum.org>
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