[Fedora-packaging] Re: Kernel Module Packaging Standard Teleconference

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:09, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> If we really want to support older kernels then we need "uname -r" (or
> kabi, or another identifier) in the %{NAME} *or* a plugin that handles
> the stuff manually. I think I prefer the "uname -r/kabi" approach in
> that case.

Or you can make the package available in the repo, but the end user who is 
stuck on an old kernel can by hand yum install the specific version they 
need.  Not exactly pretty, but functional, and is just one more part of the 
pain that is dealing with external modules and pinning to a given kernel.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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