[RFC PATCH] Switch to including config-* instead of kernel-*.config

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 07/11/2007 01:37 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> The attached patch switches the kernel rpm over from including the
> current static kernel-*.config files to instead including the config-*
> files that are actually in cvs.
> 
> It means we don't leave kernel-*.config droppings all over the place
> (following a rebase, its entirely too easy to end up with
> kernel-2.6.21-*.config and kernel-2.6.22-*.config files laying about,
> which can sometimes cause odd things to happen), and we don't modify
> SOURCE files in %prep (see bug 232602), which could otherwise result in
> repacking an srpm with the same n-v-r with different kernel-*.config
> files. As a bonus, along the way, this cleans up a number of rpmlint
> warnings (though there are still a TON to poke at).
> 
> In the future, this would also make life easier for the RHEL6 and later
> maintainers, as we typically prefer config changes against the config-*
> files, rather than against the kernel-*.config files, but (most) non-rh
> folks don't have cvs access to get at the config-* files right now.
> 
> Thus far, the only real downside is that it requires moving all the
> config-* files up to the root of the kernel cvs dir, which is 1) a bit
> messy and 2) results in losing prior versioning history on those files,
> since cvs blows.
> 

1) No big deal, though.

2) There's not much relevant history in there anyway.