On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
Been playing with how I'd make the kernel package deal with the new 'make firmware_install' stuff. Currently looks something like this.
The patches have now hit Linus' tree, so I've committed the specfile parts too. As soon as we update to 2.6.26-git1, we'll get a separate kernel-firmware package which is required by the main kernel binary package.
I suspect that (for now) we should make the kernel binary packages depend on kernel-firmware?
Done. There are some firmwares which are under GPL, so even the "Free Software or nothing!" folks can have _some_ form of kernel-firmware package. I don't think there's a problem with requiring it.
I'll leave it to Alex to submit for review a kernel-firmware-libre package which Provides: kernel-firmware and which actually builds the various firmware files from source :)
Should the package own the /lib/firmware/ directory?
Not done.
Ideally we'll want kernel-firmware to be a .noarch.rpm, but we can't get that until we start to build it from a separate srpm.
Done.