Corner cases for -kmod-common packages (was: New member, package review, questions about template .spec)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 26 08:43:22 CET 2012


Philip Prindeville wrote:
> In the case of a trivial (and invariant!) -kmod-common file, should we be
> allowed to keep everything in a single .spec?

That would mean the package gets needlessly updated each time the kmod is 
rebuilt from a new kernel, even though it never changed at all. So that's 
exactly the reason why a separate specfile and SRPM is needed!

        Kevin Kofler



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