On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:54:06PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> Axel Thimm schrieb:
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:11:57PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:36 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> And to cut to the chase: Ever tried to support special kernel rpms
>> like swsusp2 or ccrma's low-latency kernels? I did and know it works
>> for kmdl and will fail with kmod.
> I looked into this once and I'd like to give people a bit more
> background from my point of view:
>
> Yes, kmod fails for the swsusp2 kernel from
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/.
> But that's not directly a bug/problem in kmod. kmods would work if the
> swsusp2 kernel would be packaged exactly in the same way as the FC
> kernels are packaged. But that's not the case.
which was done deliberately to not conflict with having the same name
with a Fedora package, just as the highest mandate coming from Fedora
to 3rd parties is, right?
Right, but it can be done in different ways, e.g. in a ways, that
follows the general naming and file-placing behavior from the Fedora
kernels or in ways that differ -- in case of the swsusp the latter was
chosen.
CU
thl