Small update to the kmod2 documentation
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Sep 14 11:10:34 CEST 2008
Hi!
Just to make sure everybody notices it: I did a small change to the
Kmod2 documentation (to be precise: to the the kmod spec file template)
in the wiki:
- Release: 1{?dist}
+ Release: 1{?dist}.1
Background: It happened in the past now and then that kernel modules for
an older Fedora release had a higher EVR due to kmod release bumps
during rebuilds for newly released kernels. Example:
- Packages
kmod-foo-1.fc8
kmod-foo-1.fc9
get build and pushed to the repo.
- Now Fedora ships new kernels for F-8 and F-9 in parallel; release in
the F8 and F9 spec files for kmod-foo get bumbed and the kmod build and
pushed:
kmod-foo-2.fc8
kmod-foo-2.fc9
- A F8 specific bug is found in the F8 Kernel; a new one gets pushed to
the Fedora repos. The kmod rebuilds commands I use (which I plan to put
into a script that I hope to run as cron job somewhere sooner or later)
during kmod bumps for new kernels don't know that and thus just bump
release; thus
kmod-foo-3.fc8
gets build and pushed to the repos. That breaks the upgrade path from
F8 to F9 from that point of time until F9 catches up again.
I plan to adjust the kmods for RPM Fusion/Livna over time (during import
for RPM Fusion might be a good point of time). Help from maintainers
appreciated.
CU
knurd
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