[Fedora-packaging] Kernel modules (was: Re: tpctl in extras missing dependancy for kernel-module-thinkpad)

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Wed Jun 29 15:07:56 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:58 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:31:31PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:38 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Leaving everything else aside for a sec, this doesn't screw up bugzilla if
> > > > you do it as a subpackage -- same way kernel and kernel-smp don't.
> > > 
> > > I think we have to assume that there will be some kernel-module packages
> > > that just consist of drivers, with no extra user space addons.
> > 
> > Just for the record as we don't seem to be needing this stuff: does not
> > matter, those could be implemented so that the SRPM would produce _only_
> > one binary "subpackage".
> > 
> 
> One spec file can produce packages like the following IIRC:
> 
> openafs-V-R
> openafs-client-V-R
> kernel-module-openafs-V-R.%{cleankver}
> openafs-devel-V-R

Indeed. Just give the subpackage its own Release tag.

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