On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:07:42PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:20 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:50:13 -0500, Build System <buildsys@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > New package GFS-kernel > > > GFS-kernel - The Global File System kernel modules > > > New package cman-kernel > > > cman-kernel - The Cluster Manager kernel modules > > > New package dlm-kernel > > > dlm-kernel - The Distributed Lock Manager kernel modules. > > > New package gnbd-kernel > > > gnbd-kernel - The kernel module for GFS's Network Block Device > > > > > > My understanding is these package are pretty much the first packages > > inside Fedora Core > > to provide kernel modules outside the actual kernel package. > > I do wonder though why they aren't just patched into the regular kernel > rpm... Would make a lot more sense for something provided in the core > distro.... Probably because RHEL4 will have GFS as a separate add-on product to buy. It's not a direct argument for FC, but after all for RH it's a bigger PITA to have FC with patched in GFS and RHEL with externally maintained GFS bits. Too bad we couldn't get a proper external kernel module building mechanism into Fedora Core half a year ago. ... At the very least the packages should contain the kernel version/release they are built for in the name of the package, though. Anyway, as Jeff writes, it's a first step. :) What I find muxh more appealing is the use of foo-kernheaders in analogy to glibc-kernheaders, which was something that didn't have a proper method to be packaged until now. Already applied to two packages at ATrpms (i2c and ivtv :). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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