Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Mar 5 15:51:04 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:08:04 -0500,
   Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>So you agree multi-tiered subpackages is a bad idea, but then you
>propose a netfilter specific subpackage?  ... Probably not.  They'll
>likely just be in kernel-core.

Couldn't the planned module provides allow something like this to work 
without worry much about which modules are in which packages? netfilter 
could juts require the modules it needs and it would pull in and extra 
kernel module packages that are needed.


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