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

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:49 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My thoughts exactly.
> 
> (Hell, I'd even like to 'mv kernel-2.6.spec kernel.spec', but davej
> seems to not like that idea so much... ;)

Why?

josh