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

[Jack Neely]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:35:14PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:42 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:26 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:04 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 10:40 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > > > > As an aside, I didn't think Extras was ready to tackle the issue of
> > > > > > kernel module packages yet.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Right, at least three issues remain: how to name the modules, how to
> > > > > make depsolvers do the right thing with them, and how to request builds
> > > > > for i586 and i686 from the build system for the same package.
> > > > 
> > > > Screw i586 for now.
> > > 
> > > I'll screw it once the i586 kernel is screwed from FC :)  Seriously,
> > > there are cases where i586 and external kernel modules are a valid
> > > scenario; 
> > As architectures actually are switched outside of rpm-specs 
> > (rpmbuild --target=..) this isn't a packaging issue, but actually is a
> > build system issue.
> > 
> > I.e. the buildsystem has to be equipped with means to specify
> > architectures, because rpm specs can't handle it.
> 
> It's also an rpmdb issue as you (or at least *I*) can't have
> kernel-devel.i586 and kernel-devel.i686 installed simultaneously even
> though there are no file conflicts between the packages.
> 
> -- 
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/
> 
> gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72

To me this is really a multilib issue.  Multiple packages with the same
name installed but built for different arches.  The spec file needs to
be able to require the kernel-devel packages of the same arch as the
current build.

Jack Neely

> --
> Fedora-packaging mailing list
> Fedora-packaging at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging


-- 
Jack Neely <slack at quackmaster.net>
Realm Linux Administration and Development
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4  EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89