On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 20:16 -0400, Warren Togami wrote: > After weeks of discourse on IRC and mailing list discussions, we seem to > be unable to make progress toward an amicable agreement. > > What seems to be the issue is that RPM does not allow any clean solution > to the kernel module packaging problem. Both kmod and kmdl are > comprised of ugly hacks in order to overcome the design limitations of > RPM. Both kmod and kmdl have pros and cons, and neither is a clearly > agreed by all parties as being technically superior. > > The FESCO side is disconcerted by this situation because a great deal of > effort over years was put into making and ratifying today's kmod > standard. On the other hand, there is some hope for middle-ground > because of stated willingness to further revise kmod to overcome > remaining limitations. As I didn't have the time to follow all these discussions and threads, and to have a basis for such an IRC-conference, I would appreciate if Axel and Thorsten could write up a "my proposal at one glance" outline. I would be particularly interested in their proposals's macroscopic behavior and interaction with rpmbuild, mock, rpm -U|-I, the impact on yum/apt/smart. > If the packaging committee cannot come to key agreements, then the > matter will be escalated to the Fedora Project Board who will make the > key decisions. "Order di Mufti" as we call this in German, the worst of all management principles :( Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
