Re: Custom compiled 4.17 kernel has a file conflict with COPYING for kernel 4.16

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:19 PM, stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 10:55:39 -0500
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I had filed a bug (1564745) for this a day earlier.
>
> Sorry about that.  I did a search, and when the top result was the
> issue, I didn't look further.
>
>> One option would be to change the name to match the kernel version.
>> Another option would be put it in kernel instead of kernel-core.
>> Another option would be to have a versioned name in kernel-core and
>> a symlink to it with the normal name in kernel.
>
> I vote for one.  There's a file for each installed kernel, and upon
> kernel removal, it just disappears without any checks to see if there
> are other kernels needing the file.

I would be happy to hear more feedback on this from people. I am
trying to decide on the best course to take (this file changes rarely
and last changed in 2005). I plan to put something in place by rc1
next Monday.

Justin
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