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.

-- 
dwmw2




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