On 07/11/2007 01:37 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > The attached patch switches the kernel rpm over from including the > current static kernel-*.config files to instead including the config-* > files that are actually in cvs. > > It means we don't leave kernel-*.config droppings all over the place > (following a rebase, its entirely too easy to end up with > kernel-2.6.21-*.config and kernel-2.6.22-*.config files laying about, > which can sometimes cause odd things to happen), and we don't modify > SOURCE files in %prep (see bug 232602), which could otherwise result in > repacking an srpm with the same n-v-r with different kernel-*.config > files. As a bonus, along the way, this cleans up a number of rpmlint > warnings (though there are still a TON to poke at). > > In the future, this would also make life easier for the RHEL6 and later > maintainers, as we typically prefer config changes against the config-* > files, rather than against the kernel-*.config files, but (most) non-rh > folks don't have cvs access to get at the config-* files right now. > > Thus far, the only real downside is that it requires moving all the > config-* files up to the root of the kernel cvs dir, which is 1) a bit > messy and 2) results in losing prior versioning history on those files, > since cvs blows. > 1) No big deal, though. 2) There's not much relevant history in there anyway. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
