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