Hello everyone, thank you for all the comments.
As it seems this will take some time so let me exclude driver sources
from the package.
BR,
Ali
On 08/07/2022 21:01, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
So… the question becomes: do we still want this guideline? There is no
general _legal_ or _technical_ reason to not allow external kernel
modules to be packaged.
The guideline was originally added way back in the earlier days of Fedora,
on as a result of discussions between FESCo, the packaging committee and
the kernel maintainers (which I think was basically just Dave Jones at
the time). The idea was simply the obvious: external modules that cause
bugs end up falling on the kernel maintainers to sort out, and that task
is hard enough without a random assortment of modules in the way.
There were other considerations as well. Pre-akmods it was difficult to
keep modules and the main kernel version in sync, but that's not much of
a consideration these days. The issue of incompatibility remains,
though; modules may not always be compatible with new kernels, so what
happens when a module package hasn't been ported? Do the kernel
maintainers now have to worry about maintaining compatibility?
In any case, if the kernel maintainers no longer want this policy, then
of course we shouldn't have it. But if they do still want it to be in
place then I would be against removing it.
So go ahead and ask the maintainers, and they can let us (the packaging
committee) know what they desire. It's entirely possible that the
answer will be different now, all these years later. I would assume
that the kernel maintainer team is completely different at this point.
If they do not wish to continue the policy then we'll just need to work
out a new one, and certainly guidelines will be needed.
- J<
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