[Fedora-packaging] Re: Kernel Module Packaging Standard Teleconference

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Axel Thimm schrieb:
> [...]
> I answered to this on fedora-devel. I also added this to the wiki. But
> still let's give an example (versions are faked and simplified, I
> don't want to go hunting them, but the example is bitter real):
> 
> ipw2200-1 requires userland package ipw2200-firmware-1
> 
> We have two kernels, "a" the old one, "b" the new one. So kmod would
> deliver something like
> 
> ipw2200-kmod-1-a and
> ipw2200-kmod-1-b
> 
> For the two kernels before the module upgrade. Now the following three
> packages hit the repo
> 
> ipw2200-kmod-2-a and
> ipw2200-kmod-2-b
> ipw2200-firmware-2
> 
> And the kmods require the new firmware.

You can package both the old and the new firmware in one package. We did 
it in livna for ipw2200 because people might still run older Fedora 
Kernels that requires the new firmware, while the up2date kernel 
requires the new firmware.

CU
thl