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Summary: Review Request: <libtune> - <standard API to access the kernel tunables>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210007
------- Additional Comments From Nadia.Derbey@bull.net 2006-11-21 09:44 EST ------- (In reply to comment #14)
- I think the need to have in the spec file the build against different kernels
and releases is not needed.
I agree with you that this makes quite a lot of rpm's when building for the various platforms.
But if we keep only the FC6 specific part, we will loose the benefits of the library: it is supposed to ensure portability across kernel releases / distros for what concerns the kernel tunables. To ensure that portability, a 'tunable database' is needed for each supported kernel / distro. Delivering only the FC6 specific part will prevent a client with both the FC5 and FC6 installed on its machines to use the library.
One thing that can be done is to deliver all the supported kernel databases in a single sub-package, and all the supported distro databases in a single sub-package.
But again, this can be a problem, since somebody downloading the kernel database sub-package may potentially have unneeded data installed on its machine. Actually that's why we have decided to split each sub-package: in order to let a user choose what to download depending on what is installed on its machine.