On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:49 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > 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. > > My thoughts exactly. > > (Hell, I'd even like to 'mv kernel-2.6.spec kernel.spec', but davej > seems to not like that idea so much... ;) Why? josh _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
