On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:13:13PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:00:21PM -0500, Elliot Lee wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:57:47AM -0500, Build System wrote: > > > > > Removed package magma > > > > > Removed package ccs > > > > > Removed package GFS > > > > > Removed package magma-plugins > > > > > Removed package iddev > > > > > Removed package gulm > > > > > Removed package fence > > > > > Removed package rgmanager > > > > > Removed package ccs > > > > > Removed package magma > > > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > Because the kernel support is not included yet. The maintainer of these > > > packages asked for them to be removed until that happens. > > > > All they needed as a mandatory kernel patch was the distributed > > flock, which was there since 2.6.9 or so. > > > > Or do you mean that the GFS' kernel support (which was in these > > packages) is going to become a patch to the kernel? IMHO it was > > cleaner as an external kernel module solution and would also give > > a nicer layering idiom to RHEL4 w/o having to replace the kernel. > > FWIW, I'd rather see this done as an external module also. If for > no other reason than as a demonstration that external modules can be > packaged correctly. If they can't, lets fix that. Perhaps the packaging of kernel modules at ATrpms can be an example for this. There are a couple of dozen of kernel module projects being packaged at ATrpms for the last couple of years proving this scheme to work beautifully. For instance all GFS kernel parts are in foo-kmdl-`uname -r` package names making them unique per kernel. That way parallel kernel installations do not upgrade each others kernel modules but kernel modules still get properly upgraded within each kernel. http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/cluster/ It doesn't use kernel-devel (since no such thing exists for FC <= 3), but a similar approach embedded into ATrpms' build system allowing to access kernel source configured and prepared for the targetted kernel. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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