Hi all, redhat-rpm-config in Fedora still contains an ancient copy of kmodtool back from the days when Fedora allowed kmods directly into the main Fedora repo, rather then only allowing them in 3th party repositories. Currently 3th party repositories like rpmfusion (I've put Nicolas and Leigh from rpmfusion in the Cc) and negativo17 (Simone in the Cc) maintain and use their own fork. There are 2 forks actually one maintained by rpmfusion which seems the most complete / recent but does not support building kabi packages for EL and various EL repos embed a different copy in the src.rpm for their kmod packages so that they can build kabi packages. As part of the work I've been doing to make it easier to install the nvidia binary drivers for users who want that, I want to clean up the situation around kmodtool and aim for one kmodtool version which does everything needed. I've been discussing how to do this with Nicolas and Simone and the plan is: 1) Create a pagure.io repo for kmodtool put the rpmfusion version there 2) Package the kmodtool from pagure.io in its own kmodtool package in a way which does not conflict with the ancient copy from redhat-rpm-config. 3) Once the new packaged version is available, drop the old kmodtool from newer redhat-rpm-config versions. 4) Extend the new kmodtool to also support creating kabi compliant packages. I started with sending this mail to Dan Horák to ask if he was ok with dropping kmodtool from redhat-rpm-config, but he indicated that redhat-rpm-config is maintained by the rpm/dnf team, so hence I'm sending this mail to rpm-software-management now, with fedora-devel in the Cc to make sure I'm not leaving anyone out of the loop. So a few questions for the rpm/dnf team: 1) What do you think of the above plan ? 2) Do you see any issues with dropping kmodtool from redhat-rpm-config for Fedora ? 3) Would you be willing to drop the old kmodtool for F26+ ? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
