[Fedora-packaging] Re: DKMS into Fedora Extras

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Feb 22 06:26:37 UTC 2005


>I don't see it solving that either. Nobody *likes* those 
>kernel-module-foo-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 type names but nobody has come up with 
>a solution which covers all the cases without the kernel version in 
>package name. Oh and I think special name-based hacks are required for 
>this anyway... and I seriously doubt you want those in yum proper.
>
>If I understood correctly the Xtrigger-stuff should allow pushing the 
>special kernel-module handling to a separate script/module and enabled 
>only where needed, somewhat like my apt lua-script which handles (or 
>at least tries to :) this mess.

We could spawn things out of xtrigger -however xtrigger will play hell
with a gui front end for output reasons.

thoughts?
-sv





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