Patch for kernel variants/flavors

[Harald Hoyer]

Here is a patch for the kernel.spec, which changes the version of kernel
flavor/variants to end in "-$flavor" instead of ".$flavor". This change makes it
easier to detect a flavor and a parser can separate it from the architecture.

With that change we can correct kernel-install (of systemd) to call
new-kernel-package with --package kernel-$flavor, because the $flavor can easily
be extracted from the version string.

Another solution would be to name the default kernel to have a flavor "default"
like SUSE does, but this does not look nice.

Another solution would be a hardcoded list of flavors in kernel-install.

The last solution would be to add a flavor argument to kernel-install, which has
no purpose other than to pass it through to new-kernel-package.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi!

Harald Hoyer wrote on 11.06.2013 16:06:
> Here is a patch for the kernel.spec, which changes the version of kernel
> flavor/variants to end in "-$flavor" instead of ".$flavor". [...]

Patch didn't make it trough afaics.
> With that change we can correct kernel-install (of systemd) to call
> new-kernel-package with --package kernel-$flavor, because the $flavor can easily
> be extracted from the version string.
>
> Another solution would be to name the default kernel to have a flavor "default"
> like SUSE does, but this does not look nice.

Having been involved with various things around kernel pkgs from Fedora
(including kmods as used in RPM Fusion): It would make a lot of scripts
I used or used a whole lot easier if the stock kernel would have a
flavor, too. So I'm all for giving it a name. Ubuntu, btw, calls the
standard kernel "generic".
> [...]

CU
knurd

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:34:40PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Harald Hoyer wrote on 11.06.2013 16:06:
> > Here is a patch for the kernel.spec, which changes the version of kernel
> > flavor/variants to end in "-$flavor" instead of ".$flavor". [...]
>
> Patch didn't make it trough afaics.

Yeah.  I don't know why.
> > With that change we can correct kernel-install (of systemd) to call
> > new-kernel-package with --package kernel-$flavor, because the $flavor can easily
> > be extracted from the version string.
> >
> > Another solution would be to name the default kernel to have a flavor "default"
> > like SUSE does, but this does not look nice.
>
> Having been involved with various things around kernel pkgs from Fedora
> (including kmods as used in RPM Fusion): It would make a lot of scripts
> I used or used a whole lot easier if the stock kernel would have a
> flavor, too. So I'm all for giving it a name. Ubuntu, btw, calls the
> standard kernel "generic".

In previous discussions with Harald, he just meant having it show up in
the installed files and uname.  The actual RPM name would still just be
'kernel', so I don't think it would help you there.

josh

[Harald Hoyer]

On 06/11/2013 04:34 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Harald Hoyer wrote on 11.06.2013 16:06:
> > Here is a patch for the kernel.spec, which changes the version of kernel
> > flavor/variants to end in "-$flavor" instead of ".$flavor". [...]
>
> Patch didn't make it trough afaics.

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