kernels in the packaging universe

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:55:19PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:51 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > Personally, I'm voting for "don't bother".
> >
> > This is a bad idea. We're encouraging fragmentation, and discouraging
> > the proper upstream path.
> 
> Absolutely.

+1

> >  If specific open source groups want to do
> > pre-upstream testing of kernel packages, let them make their own
> > unofficial repos. We'll link to them in our wiki. 
> 
> If we must. I think it's better to stick to "if it isn't upstream, it
> doesn't exist" though.

+1

> We should make it clear we don't want _any_ kmod packages in the new
> combined Core+Extras too.

Um, no.  We've been over this before.  Changing the location of code in a
SCM doesn't change any of the previous discussions.  I don't particularly
like it, but *shrug*.

josh