Heads up: new sysprof package without binary kernel module

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 07:37:19 UTC 2007


On Dec 27, 2007 11:58 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 1. provide a subpackage with the kernel module sources
> > 2. let this package obsolete kmod-sysprof
> > 3. provide a build procedure for the kernel module
> > 4. patch the main sysprof application to help the user understanding
> > what is going on
>
> Please don't do this. What would be an advantage of this approach
> compared to shipping a binary module? The solution that seems most
> logical for me is to remove the sysprof package from Fedora altogether,
> and it will surely find some love in Livna and RPMFusion.
>

The main advantage of this approach is actually that I can avoid
moving the package between repos...

I hope to get some more (different?) views on the topic

Thanks a lot

Gianluca




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