[Fedora-packaging] Re: atrpms kernel modules

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Axel Thimm schrieb:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Toshio Kuratomi schrieb:
>>> Apologies for posting into the wrong subthread of this monster, I
>>> already deleted the relevant mail.
>>>
>>> If one of the major issues with the current kmod spec is that neither
>>> rpm -U nor rpm -i work correctly, shouldn't that be corrected?  If the
>>> module could install into something like this:
>>>   /lib/modules/MODULE-VERSION-RELEASE/(KERNELVER|KABI)/MODULE.ko
>>>
>>> instead of:
>>>   /lib/modules/KERNELVER/extra/MODULE/MODULE.ko
>>>
>>> wouldn't that bring the behaviour of kmods inline with that of the
>>> kernel?  (Use rpm -i for normal operations, rpm -U if you don't believe
>>> in Murphy).
>> I like that idea -- especially when combined with the the kabi stuff.
>> Yes, someone still could run "rpm -Uvh" and would loose older kmods, but
>> yum and apt would do the right thing.
> 
> Why would suddenly yum/apt work better?

Because

/lib/modules/MODULE-VERSION-RELEASE/(KERNELVER|KABI)/MODULE.ko

avoids that there are ever file conflicts between packages so yum will
always be able to install the new module (just like the kernel -- you
can of course still do rpm -Uvh manually, but I don't care because
that's possible with the kernel, too).

CU
thl