RFC: kernel-modules in Fedora Extras

Fri Jan 6 17:17:06 UTC 2006

Am Freitag, den 06.01.2006, 18:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:26 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 06.01.2006, 11:12 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:
> 
> > > Where it gets more interesting is if you want to build an updated SRPM
> > > for a kernel that's not the most recent.
> > 
> > In the past most people involved in the discussions said: Only build for
> > the latest kernel. 
> People will not be able to update unless you build for all kernels.

This is a yum problem and will hopefully be fixed by the plugin (and if
the problem you are referring to even exists with the new standard is
doubtful).

> Consider the current nvidia disaster people are facing with the kernel
> drivers on livna.

You mean this "disaster" that is around for ~two years already? Seems
people ignored it for a long time and it works mostly fine for a lot of
people. 

(if people wonder what we are talking about see
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725 )

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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>