[Bug 210007] Review Request: <libtune> - <standard API to access the kernel tunables>

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Summary: Review Request: <libtune> - <standard API to access the kernel tunables>


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210007





------- Additional Comments From Nadia.Derbey at bull.net  2006-11-21 09:44 EST -------
(In reply to comment #14)
> * I think the need to have in the spec file the build against different kernels
> and releases is not needed.
> 

I agree with you that this makes quite a lot of rpm's when building for the
various platforms.

But if we keep only the FC6 specific part, we will loose the benefits of the
library: it is supposed to ensure portability across kernel releases / distros
for what concerns the kernel tunables. To ensure that portability, a 'tunable
database' is needed for each supported kernel / distro. Delivering only the FC6
specific part will prevent a client with both the FC5 and FC6 installed on its
machines to use the library.

One thing that can be done is to deliver all the supported kernel databases in a
single sub-package, and all the supported distro databases in a single sub-package.

But again, this can be a problem, since somebody downloading the kernel database
sub-package may potentially have unneeded data installed on its machine.
Actually that's why we have decided to split each sub-package: in order to let a
user choose what to download depending on what is installed on its machine.





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