[Fedora-packaging] Re: kmdl proposal and kmod flaws

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:45:42PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > My current approach is to build a subpackage containing kernel modules for
> > the latest three kernels all bundled together. This is horrible but works
> > fine in our environment. (And, works perfectly fine with buildrequires and
> > makes repeatable builds without passing in special parameters on the build
> > command line.)
> doesn't this imply that the kernels are also effectively bundled?

No. There's no dependency tracking going on. It only works because everyone
gets updates.


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