Re: Attempting to update omnibook, omnibook-kmod, and akmod-omnibook
I was able to generate a full set of binary and source packages for both
omnibook and omnibook-kmod. I should point out that the actual change to the
existing package is tiny, almost trivial, and was only needed to compensate
for a change in linker behavior. If the old package was acceptable, the new
should be as well.
I suspect everyone's busy with F15-related things just now, so I should
mention that the akmod worked fine on my Toshiba laptop after my preupgrade
to F15. Hope someone can get to the review soon!
Best,
Ryan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Ryan Martin <kynalvarus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry about the pause, life got busy on me. I've submitted the
omnibook-kmod SRPM for review.
Best, Ryan
On May 25, 2011 8:33 AM, "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski"
<
dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> welcome on board.
>
> On Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 18:39, Ryan Martin wrote:
> [...]
>> Recently, I was able to fix a bug in the Omnibook support package, a
>> somewhat abandoned set of drivers for certain laptop-specific
>> functions of many HP and Toshiba laptops.
>> (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3157406&group_id=...
)
>
> While I can't say if your fix is proper, your work is definitely
> welcome. I don't have as much time as I used to to work on my packages,
> so someone with the same hardware would be appreciated.
>
>
>> I've been going through the process of joining RPM Fusion in order to
>> update these packages, but I've hit a bit of a deadlock. According to
>> the contributors page, in order to get sponsored and get CVS access to
>> RPM Fusion, I'm supposed to submit a package for review.
>
> Becoming a packager without creating a new package is not without
> precedent and I could sponsor you. However, I'd like you to do a couple
> of package reviews (non-binding, obviously), to evaluate your grasp
> of packaging guidelines and best practices. The package reviews can be
> done either in Fedora or RPMFusion.
>
>> However,
>> rather than reinvent the akmod and kmod spec file from scratch, I'd
>> like to update the exising ones. It seems that without getting
>> sponsored, I cannot get the ssh access to cvs.rpmfusion.org that would
>> allow me to check out and review the work that's already been done.
>
> You can get the src.rpm and see the specfile inside. Please send any
> patches my way and I'll apply them.
>
> Regards,
> Dominik
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