[Fedora-packaging] Re: atrpms kernel modules

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jul 21 17:06:39 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:51 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> BTW, when we initially discussed the kmod standard there was also (IIRC)
> a strong resistance from multiple important and well known people at
> redhat against overloading %{NAME} with the output of "uname -r". I
> doubt that option changed. Spot? Jeremy? f13?

Yep. I'm still very strongly against overloading %{NAME}. We don't
permit any other package to do this for any reason, and I don't want to
start now. Name is not for versioning.

~spot
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