Summary from yesterdays fesco meeting

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Feb 18 14:34:38 UTC 2006


Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 16:16 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 20:39 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >  * Kernel module standardization
> >   * Should archs be hardcoded with a "ExclusiveArch: i586 i686 x86_64
> > ppc" or similar entries? That's how it is done in beehive, but scop
> > doesn't like that idea to much. Warren will ask dcbw if there are
> > alternatives.
> 
> Warren poked me, here's my response:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>[...]
> a) Let packages do whatever the heck they want with their Exclusive,
> Exclude, BuildArch tags, including using %{ix86} as Mike suggests
> b) Have the buildsystem recognize kmod packages somehow (which we have
> to do anyway), then filter kmod packages through a "supported" list of
> sub-arches, including i586, i686, x86_64, ppc, athlon.  There's some
> support for this already in the buildsystem.
>[...]
> Let me know what you think.

Sound good to me. Any ideas what we need to achieve b) ? There is
nothing in the current kernel-module proposal that would help with that
(besides the "kmod" in the name).

CU
thl
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