On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:56 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Hello, > > I have thought about rpm packages containing kernel modules independently of > the threads in this mailing list, which Matt Domsch was friendly enough to > pointed me at --- thanks, Matt. Maybe we can share some thoughts, and even > move our implementations a little closer together. Welcome to the unified flame-war... i mean, party. :) > You seem to also prefix kernel module package names with ``kernel-module-'' to > make them easier to identify. Not really necessary I believe, especially > since they can as well be listed with --whatrequires. We're doing this for user sanity as well, and to help differentiate userspace packages from kernel-module packages. (Yum might be checking for it as well, but I'm not the expert on that). > We thought it useful to include a unique provider prefix in the package name > though, so that different vendors won't produce name clashes. Our plan was to > use the LANANA provider names registry (http://www.lanana.org/) for that. Ugh. I really don't want to cram everything and the kitchen sink into the package name. I'd rather see the package check for a SuSE/Fedora/Whatever only file on the system and use that to determine if its in the right place or not. We also have dist tags for that purpose in Fedora Extras. > The driver name, driver version, and kernel release ($KERNELRELEASE) are also > stored differently in rpm tags: our build system likes to be able to freely > assign the package release number, so we don't store extra information there. > Rather, we put the driver version in the Name, and the kernel release in the > Version: Hmm. Again, I don't want to overload %{name}. That's not what its there for, imho. > What I'm also missing in your proposals is mkinitrd calls: When modules that > are part of initrds get replaced, you also want to update it the initrds I > guess. That's not too hard, really. We can use the same /sbin/new-kernel-pkg that the Fedora kernel uses: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install %{KVERREL} ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
