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 11:19 PM, Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I'd lean towards having COPYING in the kernel subpackage and
installing it in a versioned directory - trading a very small amount
of disk space for upgrade safety and simplicity.
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