David Woodhouse schrieb:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
Given that we don't want it on Core or Extras, I'm pretty happy to let random 3rd party packager do whatever they want for packaging modules. I'm not interested in dictating how they should handle this ugly hack.
Your example about ntfs is not usable w/out the userland (ntfsprogs), which nobody wants to touch due to legal reasons, and would be obsoleted by FUSE anyway where the most recent ntfs support is done entirely in userspace.
There are many more things the packaging committee can spend time worrying about. Packaging of kernel modules isn't one of them IMHO.
Yeah, that's a fair point. However, it would be useful if those who _do_ care about kernel module packages would come to an agreement about how it should be done, and that can be documented somewhere central to Fedora -- like on the Fedora wiki.
We can modify our kernel RPM and yum if appropriate in order to support that agreed method.
That already happend -- FESCo worked out and agreed on a propsoal last winter http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/KernelModules
It's working fine.
CU thl