On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:22:22AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 20:13 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > With UsrMove now landed in rawhide, I'm assuming that you'll be wanting > > to commit the patch[1] that makes kernel.spec install modules into > > /usr/lib instead of /lib. According to my understanding, this is mostly > > a "put things in the new proper location" more than it is a requirement, > > because the symlinks should still allow a fully functioning kernel to > > work (and they do in my local testing). > > Yes, that's true. > > It's a little bit more than correctness, it's the RPM db, which does not > reflect reality, and explicit: > Requires: </path/to/file> > in/from other packages can not be fulfilled by RPM/Yum when the package > is not already installed on the system. But none of that should really > matter. Ah, right. Though if some other package is doing e.g. Requires: /usr/lib/modules/<whatever>/kernel/fs/fat/fat.ko I think I would track that maintainer down and remove their commit privs ;) > > If there is an issue with that scenario, I'd like to skip the patch > > until F17 becomes the oldest supported release. With things obviously > > still working as-is today, I don't see much issue in doing so. > > Yes, I don't see a real problem with that. As soon as it is reasonable > to cut off older releases, we can add a: > Conflict: filesystem < 3 > > to the kernel RPM, which prevent is from getting installed on older > systems, and finally switch over to the new world. Sounds great. Thanks for the quick reply. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
