[elrepo-devel] a few comment about elrepo's packages

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Phil Perry wrote:

> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> On 08/05/2009 01:31 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>>>> the best would be some kind of packaging howto with comment and
>>>> templates which can be used in all kmod packages.
>>>> regards
>>>
>>> We have template files for Makefile, kmodtool and SPEC. You can see
>>> these from any recent package. I agree that it would be a good idea to
>>> document these on the wiki :)
>>
>> ok than in short can i get the latest Makefile, kmodtool and SPEC
>> template and spec?
>> thanks.
>
> Sure, I'll send you the files off list :)
>
> If you're interested in contributing (and/or maintaining) packages then
> we can get you set up with an account.

Levente,

I'd also want to point out that we are looking to extend the existing 
kmodtool to do a few things that it doesn't do yet (that only makes sense 
for RHEL-based distributions):

  - we want to allow a config-file (or inline SPEC directives) to influence
    kmodtool without the need to fork and change it (eg. to add Requires,
    sub-packages, etc...)

  - we want it to be able to package multiple kernel modules (for different
    kABI versions) for all the main RHEL releases (8.el5, 53.el5, 92.el5,
    128.el5)

  - somehow we also want to provide RHEL4 kernel modules, if possible,
    lacking the current kABI infrastructure.

Apart from that we also identified a bug in Red Hat's weak-modules script 
that we like to see fixed in Red Hat. We discussed this already with 
Red Hat's Jon Masters but haven't followed-up on this yet :-/

We could use help from the community with everything we are currently 
lacking and I would prefer that we focus on enabling users to help us, 
rather than trying to do everything ourselves.

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