On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 10:37 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 04:15:51PM +0800, Zamir Sun wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:14 PM Zamir Sun <zsun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:11 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > * Zamir Sun: > > > > > > > > > Hi Zbyszek, > > > > > > > > > > According to the policy, kernel modules are not allowed > > > > > > > > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#_no_external_kernel_modules > > > > > > > > That section talks about pre-built binaries. The question here is about > > > > kernel module sources. > > > > > > > > > > Hi Florian, > > > > > > In the section "No external kernel modules" (which is before the > > > pre-build binary section), I did not see it mentioning pre-build or > > > not. > > > > > > "Fedora allows only a single kernel package; packages containing > > > alternate kernels are not allowed in the distribution. If there are > > > kernel features which would be generally useful, please communicate > > > with the Kernel Team." > > > > sorry, copy-paste issue > > > > "Fedora does not allow kernel modules to be packaged outside of the > > main kernel package. You should communicate with the Kernel Team > > regarding enabling additional kernel modules." > > I guess it'd be easiest if the kernel maintainers chimed in directly: > /cc kernel-maint@fp.o > > I always understood the packaging guideline to be a mechanism to prevent > users assuming that a kernel module installed from the repos is supported > by the Fedora kernel maintainers. If the user has to compile the module from > sources, it should be clear enough that this is outside of scope of support. I'm not so sure about that. akmods would fit that definition too: package only contains sources, user compiles them on their local machine - albeit automatically, in this case. And akmods are only shipped by rpmfusion. I would recommend doing the same here: Package the (optional?) kernel module as an akmod and ship it via rpmfusion. However, if the kernel module is *not* optional, then it's not allowed in Fedora repositories at all, given our "MUST NOT include software that is not functional without dependencies on packages from third-party repositories", and in that case, I'd move the whole package to rpmfusion. Fabio _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
