Re: New subpackages for Fedora

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 7:26 PM Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some of the downstream work I'm looking to bring back into Fedora is
> some new subpackages. Here's a brief explanation of what I'd like to
> bring in:
>
> - several packages with 'kabi' in the name. These are related to downstream
> ABI guarantees. All of the packages would be turned off for Fedora. No
> Fedora isn't getting any ABI guarantee.
>
> - ipaclones: this is related to kpatch support. This package will be turned
> off in Fedora. There are no plans to get kpatch support for Fedora at
> this time but like any feature if it makes sense to support it in the
> future we would consider it.
>
> - selftests: These are some bpf related selftests. This package will be
> turned off in Fedora.
>
> - modules-internal: Downstream wanted to designate a set of modules
> that get turned on but are not officially shipped. The existing
> design ends up building this package unconditionally so I was planning
> on bringing this in for Fedora. There are currently 4 modules that
> are designated for this package at the moment:
>
> mac80211_hwsim
> netdevsim
> pktgen
> rocker
>
> None of these seem like things that would be used in a regular Fedora
> system so I think it would be safe to move them around.
>
> I don't expect any of these changes to be particularly controversial
> but please let me know if you see any issue with this.
>
> I have a tree at https://pagure.io/fedora-kernel-labbott/tree/align_fedora_oct25
> with everything I'd like to bring in. I've been testing and everything seems
> to work fine. If there are no objections, I plan to bring this in sometime
> next week.

Seems mostly sane to me, we can always evolve it as we go :-)
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