kmodtool upstream

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 17:48 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu January 31 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > >> 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.
> 
> So how is one supposed to create a kmod package (e.g. VirtualBox-OSE-kmod) for 
> RPM Fusion if there is no way to get to kmodtool?

I seem to recall that you can yum install kmodtool from livna. Yep,
there it is...

http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/development/SRPMS/kmodtool-1-7.lvn9.src.rpm

> Btw. kmodinstdir_postfix should propably be called 
> kmodinstdir_suffix. "Postfix" is afaik not an english word.

Yes it is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postfix



post·fix  [v. pohst-fiks, pohst-fiks; n. pohst-fiks] 
–verb (used with object) 
1.
to affix at the end of something;
append; suffix. 
–noun 
2.
something postfixed. 
3.
a suffix. 

[Origin: 1795–1805; post- + -fix, modeled on prefix] 

—Related forms
post·fix·al, post·fix·i·al, adjective 



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