RFC: kernel-modules in Fedora Extras

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:21 -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> I was thinking of putting the looping into buildsys for known kernel 
> variants, basically the equivalent of
> for variant in <list of known variants>; do
>      rpmbuild -bb --define "variant $variant" kmod.spec
> done

Yes, that'd be doable too and this is basically how it was planned in
many early proposals, but there were pretty strong opinions towards
"build for all variants in one rpmbuild invocation", so that strategy
was adopted.

In particular, building for all variants in one pass decreases the
number of produced source rpms to one per arch for a given kernel.
There were probably some other benefits too, but I don't remember more
details now.