Am Dienstag, den 14.09.2004, 08:49 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:27, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Montag, den 13.09.2004, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> >
> > > > I can't package that right so I rather don't.
> > >
> > > Just out of curiosity, could you give me one or to details on the
> > > problem(s)? Thanks.
> >
> > Installing a new kernel won't automatically get a new
> > kernel-firewire package installed. This breaks setups
> > where people forget to update the kernel and will
> > certainly break any automatic upgrades people may have
> > set up.
>
> it's even worse, say you want to install an OLDER kernel for whatever
> reason; just "newest external" won't cut it with the way most of these
> are packages; you need the exact matching one.
Thats the reason why we name the packages at fedora.us
kernel-module-ipw2100-$(uname -r)-%{version}%{release}
Then you can install more than one version of the driver (e.g. for older
kernels or for UP and SMP at the same time).
> and you need it installed before the kernel gets installed, so that it
> makes the initrd.
If you want to boot from firewire you need in in the initrd, yes.
Otherwise not AFAIK. But booting from firewire is not the standard-case
IMO.
CU
thl
