kmodtool upstream

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Jan 31 17:23:05 CET 2008


On 31.01.2008 16:16, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu January 31 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 31.01.2008 14:15, Till Maas wrote:
> 
>>> And in which repository should it be?
>> free.rpmfusion.org likely, as it's used to build free modules as well
> Is there a repo available already? 

Nope.

>>> And why is it not in Fedora (I cannot find it in Fedora
>> It was in Fedora -- can't remember where, but it was used to build kmods
>> in Fedora, so it must have been somewhere (in the rpm macros package?).
> In Fedora one was forced to use a copy of it in the srpm/cvs branch, there was 
> no package containing it.

Yeah, your right. My memory fooled me.

>> But when Fedora kicked separately packages kernel modules I started to
>> develop it further in livna -- it made no sense to develop a Livna
>> only-solution in Fedora and just complicates things.
> Imho developing it in Fedora cvs was not good. Can you maybe use fedorahosted 
> to develop it? Or host it on somehow else, which makes sure where to get it, 
> how to report bugs and send patches?

In the long run: maybe. But I don't want to have yet another thing on my
plate that keeps me away from working on RPM Fusion.

Cu
knurd


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