[WIP] Create kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 2:09:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at splat.cc> wrote:
>>> Josh Boyer (jwboyer at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>>> > 2) A per-arch filter list, because the existing one that works on
>>>> > x86_64 leaves modules in kernel-core on ARM that lack their
>>>> > dependencies.  Bad.
>>>>
>>>> OK, I sorted this out this week.  I believe the only arch left to do is
>>>> s390x and that's only because I forgot about it.  Oops.
>>>
>>> Is this even needed on s390 for reasons other than consistency? Similarly
>>> with power, is the idea to have a core kernel for running on an LPAR and
>>> then -drivers for the rest of it?
>
>> Needed?  Probably not.  At the moment it's not possible to build a
>> normal kernel on one arch and the split on another.  If we're going to
>> go off and make changes to anaconda and yum and dnf to cope with this,
>> consistency on what is shipped is probably a good thing.
>
>> That being said, it is flexible in terms of the content of those
>> packages.  So ppc64 could do what you suggest.  s390x would arguably
>> just shove almost everything in -drivers.  In reality, I expect most
>> arches to just install both packages anyway.
>
> If  you  update  the ppc64 kernel package, please also do the same for
> the ppc 32-bit kernel.

I did.  I have to adapt for all architectures we build for, and ppc is
one of those.  You can find it in the scratch build I pointed to
earlier in the thread.

josh