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

[Farkas Levente]

sorry for the slow reply, now i start to work on it.

On 08/07/2009 01:58 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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...)

is there any progress or anybody working on it?

>    - 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 :-/

where can i read about it? what's the problem and what's the solution? 
will it be fixed in 5.4?

> 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.

i try to help and send what i do.

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"