> > Would you be interested in adding support for the kmdl scheme to yum > (or a plugin) *before* a decision is made? > > I'm suggesting this because kernel module handling is for many in this > list too abstract to discuss on paper and a live demonstration using > yum and kmdls would certainly help moving on on this subject here. A > bash shell script doing it is 9 lines, so I hope for you it would be > almost trivial to pluginize. > > Even if the decision can't be made in time for FC6 (which effectively > would mean to keep the current scheme) it would not be a waste of time > as it is already in use at ATrpms, and many users want to see yum > auto-coinstalling them upon new kernels. > -- > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net If you'd like to contribute a Yum plugin or patches to one of the existing 2 they are in the yum-utils project. They're not hard to write and there are a handful of good examples now. My time is going toward the current proposal. Panu does have a plugin in yum-utils to support a uname-r in name scheme for kernel modules. Looks like it needs to be updated a bit, but perhaps that could be a starting point for your work. Jack > -- > Fedora-packaging mailing list > Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
