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.
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@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=174260&atid=868544)
>
> 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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