Introduction

[Xavier Lamien]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Jack Neely<jjneely at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm Jack Neely and I'm the linux guy at NC State University.  (Where Red
> Hat's corperate HQ is located.)  I maintain our RHEL-based
> customizations, and other tools for managing a couple thousand Linux
> machines around campus.  I helped design the original kmod version 1
> standard and maintain a Yum plugin to do all sorts of evil with those
> kmods.  I'm hoping RPMFusion will make my job easier and have a few
> questions.
>
> RPMFusion maintains all the kernel modules I'm interested in supporting
> (and more) in RHEL 6 and our Fedora deployments (which really don't
> exist yet).  I would contribute OpenAFS to complete the set.

Hey, welcome Jack

>
> I assume folks are interested in having OpneAFS, the nVidia drivers,
> Open VM Tools, and other stuff maintained for EL6?

Actually people would. however, some stuff need to be done to get
things work from RPM Fusion

>  What will be the
> relationship with EPEL in for EL6-land?

You'll sure have better comment about it at epel@ list.

>
> What about EL5?  Is there interest in using the older kmod v1 standard
> to add kernel modules there?
>
> Are the kmod builds automated or must jobs be submitted to rebuild those
> for each kernel?  I plan on extending my yum module to know what to do
> in this case for kmodv2 as well.

Build request for each kernel release.
For EL5, i would stay on kmodv1 and move on to kmodv[1-2] for EL6.




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