[Fedora-packaging] kernel-module package naming

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Feb 22 16:55:50 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:54 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:46:23AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>> Fedora Extras:
>> openafs-module
>> unionfs-module
>
>I don't like this.  How are we supposed to refer to these packages in
>the yum configuration for installonly?  *-module might collide with
>other packages that aren't kernel modules (apache module?  perl
>module?).  I like kernel-module-unionfs because it is clear that it is
>a kernel module, and we can use the kernel-module-* glob in yum
>configuration. 

This seems reasonable. Is anyone opposed to:

kernel-module-GFS
kernel-module-openafs
kernel-module-unionfs
kernel-module-ati
kernel-module-nvidia

?

~spot
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