Axel Thimm schrieb:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi schrieb:
>> Apologies for posting into the wrong subthread of this monster, I
>> already deleted the relevant mail.
>>
>> If one of the major issues with the current kmod spec is that neither
>> rpm -U nor rpm -i work correctly, shouldn't that be corrected? If the
>> module could install into something like this:
>> /lib/modules/MODULE-VERSION-RELEASE/(KERNELVER|KABI)/MODULE.ko
>>
>> instead of:
>> /lib/modules/KERNELVER/extra/MODULE/MODULE.ko
>>
>> wouldn't that bring the behaviour of kmods inline with that of the
>> kernel? (Use rpm -i for normal operations, rpm -U if you don't believe
>> in Murphy).
> I like that idea -- especially when combined with the the kabi stuff.
> Yes, someone still could run "rpm -Uvh" and would loose older kmods, but
> yum and apt would do the right thing.
Why would suddenly yum/apt work better?
Because
/lib/modules/MODULE-VERSION-RELEASE/(KERNELVER|KABI)/MODULE.ko
avoids that there are ever file conflicts between packages so yum will
always be able to install the new module (just like the kernel -- you
can of course still do rpm -Uvh manually, but I don't care because
that's possible with the kernel, too).
CU
thl