[Fedora-packaging] Re: Mail voting on kmdl adoption

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Aug 14 15:02:35 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 16:06 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> You forgot the biggest "issue" (note the quotes): All the depsolvers 
> would need special handling to install kmods for newly installed 
> kernels. That works out of the box with the current scheme and IMHO is 
> an important advantage of the current standard. Yes, there exists a 
> yum-plugin already that handles it. But we would need something for 
> up2date/RHEL5 too in case the ABI breaks -- I suspect that's to late.
> 

up2date/rhel5 isn't an issue.

rhel5 is basing off of yum - like fedora is. So the plugins available
here can be used there, too.

-sv





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