Attention kernel module project packagers!

[Yuan Yijun]

2006/8/17, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>:
> > It's the same story: Parallel installation.
>
> Indeed - and to be exact: safely upgradable parallel installation.
>
> We have for example libpng-1.2.8 and libpng10-1.0.18 in FC5. Rpm would
> allow installing them parallerly if they were just libpng-1.2.8 and
> libpng-1.0.18 so why do we rename it? To allow them to be upgraded
> separately, an alleged 'rpm -Uvh libpng-1.2.9' would remove both versions.
>
> I haven't seen anybody arguing we should drop those compat packages and
> rely on yum plugin to deal with situations like the above correctly... so
> why are kernel modules any different?
>
>         - Panu -
>

Because they name it by hand, not by macros, thus is much more
reliable. I don't believe in  robots either. And a proper name is an
artwork.


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