Proposal to add build of kernel-backports package to kernel.spec

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 16 21:19:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:50:44PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:40:00PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
 >  
 >  > > I'm thinking along the lines of having stuff just work by default rather
 >  > > than having users file bugs when something breaks, and then having to
 >  > > tell them 'oh, install compat-wireless'.
 >  > 
 >  > You mean just have it in the base kernel package?  I would be happy
 >  > with that.
 > 
 > yeah.

So what happened here? We seemed to have agreement that compat-wireless
didn't make sense, and that we'd just carry git-wireless, but I see you
just committed compat-wireless to f16/master.

confused.

(also, having it be a tarball is a pain wrt review)

	Dave



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