RFC: kernel-modules in Fedora Extras

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 14.01.2006, 23:17 +0200 schrieb Ville Skyttä:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 13:58 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 14.01.2006, 09:16 +0000 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> > > I'd like to get rid of 'knownvariants' in the helper script,
> > 
> > Why? We did something like this in the spec file itself before.
> 
> I'd like to get rid of that from both the specfile _and_ the script.

:-)

> But if we want to support "--define"less rebuilds for arbitrary custom
> (but compatible) currently running kernels, AFAICS that would require us
> to be able to extract the variant off a random "uname -r" string, which
> I don't think is possible.

Agreed.

> > This solution IMHO is cleaner.
> Agreed, it's an improvement, but:
> 
> > it's important for people that plan to rebuild the srpm at home for
> > their current kernel without giving any of the "--define foo bar"
> > parameters.
> 
> That works only if their kernel variant is one of the known variants :(

Sure. That's brings me to another question: Will we
ship /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool in the package "rpm-build" or do we
plan to ship it in a separate package and let rpm-build depend on it? I
would prefer the latter -- this way updates would be a lot easier,
especially now that the script and the standard is still quite new.
-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>