Two kmod packaging questions

[Chris Nolan]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 12.11.2008 14:25, Chris Nolan wrote:
>> 1) Is there anything that I need to do when a new kernel is released 
>> into updates-testing or when that kernel is pushed into updates?
>
> In most cases: No (and if then I'll get in contact with you). I will 
> normally take care of rebuilding and pushing all kmods for newly 
> released kernels as quickly as possible for stable releases (for 
> rawhide the plan is to do it only once a week, but now that F-01 comes 
> closer I'll likely do it more often).
>
>> 2) When we release the kmod do we bother to release it also for older 
>> kernels or just for the most recent one?
>
> Just the recent one.
>
>> i.e. do we release a build that is for the stock F9 kernel that comes 
>> on the installation media?
>
> No. The release repos (that are empty for F8 and F9) will take care of 
> that, as all kmods there will be available for the kernels that ship 
> with F-10; that way you can use rpm fusion in the installer as the 
> deps for sure will work. Or you enable all the updates repos for 
> Fedora and RPM Fusion and get the latest kernels and kmods
>

Thanks for the very clear explanation Thorsten.

Cheers
Chris