[elrepo] kernel/kernel-lts separation

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Wed Oct 10 19:17:17 EDT 2012


On 10/10/12 23:23, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 12:57 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> So let's try to move this on. As it is currently "my move", I shall
>> confirm that I am prepared to "smile" at the suggestion of kernel-lt
>> and kernel-ml. To begin with, I would need to perform a small
>> operation upon a copy of the kernel-ml specification file to create
>> that of kernel-lt. Perhaps others will now like to think things
>> through to completion.
> The only other modification I would see as needed [ for almost any other
> package but kernels ] would be "Obsoletes: kernel-ml <3.0.45". But since
> kernels are parallel installable, I do not see anything else that needs
> to be done via the spec except for replacing the old Provides (
> kernel-ml) with the new one.
>

Agreed. It should just be a case of performing a 
's/kernel-ml/kernel-lt/' on the spec file for version 3.0.y. The hard 
work is already done by Alan in initially producing kernel-ml.







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