Heads-up to kmod packagers: 2.6.29 heading to updates-testing

[Hans de Goede]

On 04/15/2009 09:58 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 15.04.2009 09:19, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On 04/15/2009 06:47 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> See $SUBJECT. Details:
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.1-30.fc10
>>>
>>> If you are packaging kmods: Please check if your kmod builds against
>>> this kernel and update/sync with devel if necessary (ndiswrapper for
>>> example needs it iirc).
>>>
>>> I'll of course and as usually build and push the rebuilds for above
>>> kernel once bodhi sends it on the way to the repos.
>>
>> How are we going to handle this wrt qc-usb ? I guess someone should ask
>> the Fedora kernel maintainers to add an Obsoletes for that to the
>> 2.6.29 rpm ?
>
> The kmod and the matching userland package will get uninstalled by yum
> automatically sooner or later together with the old kernels. So only
> akmod package would been to be obsoleted. But I'm not sure if that's
> worth the trouble and it might create more problems then it solves for
> those that want to keep the kmods for the older kernels around in case
> they boot them again...
>

Ok, good to know this will sort out itself.

Regards,

Hans