Attention kernel module project packagers!
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Aug 15 13:58:06 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Given that we don't want it on Core or Extras, I'm pretty happy to let random
> 3rd party packager do whatever they want for packaging modules. I'm not
> interested in dictating how they should handle this ugly hack.
>
> Your example about ntfs is not usable w/out the userland (ntfsprogs), which
> nobody wants to touch due to legal reasons, and would be obsoleted by FUSE
> anyway where the most recent ntfs support is done entirely in userspace.
>
> There are many more things the packaging committee can spend time worrying
> about. Packaging of kernel modules isn't one of them IMHO.
Yeah, that's a fair point. However, it would be useful if those who _do_
care about kernel module packages would come to an agreement about how
it should be done, and that can be documented somewhere central to
Fedora -- like on the Fedora wiki.
We can modify our kernel RPM and yum if appropriate in order to support
that agreed method.
But you're right; the packaging committee don't need to waste time on
it.
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dwmw2
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