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[Gerrit Code Review]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit fa08464b2cdf555f262f69ec3ac61a3dc01c15c1
Author: Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>
Date:   Wed Aug 19 15:07:37 2026 -0400

    RedHat: Remove 'kernel-modules' Provides on RHEL8+
    
    Since commit c4ad02b69a (rpm-files-update-20071011), our
    openafs-kmodtool script (then called 'kmodtool') specifies our kernel
    module packages as "Provides: kernel-modules". At the time, this is what
    the kmodtool command from Fedora did, and was needed for kmod packages.
    
    Starting with RHEL 8 and similar vintage distros (AlmaLinux, Rocky
    Linux, Fedora 27, Amazon Linux 2023), the packages for the actual Linux
    kernel were split into kernel-core, kernel-modules, and
    kernel-modules-extra.
    
    In these distributions, 'kernel-modules' is an actual base-OS package
    providing the core kernel drivers.  Exporting 'Provides: kernel-modules'
    in kmod-openafs falsely advertises the package as a provider of the OS
    driver package.
    
    Usually this does not cause any big problems, because most systems already
    have the real kernel-modules package installed. But to avoid possible
    issues and confusion, update openafs-kmodtool to suppress 'Provides:
    kernel-modules' when building on Fedora >= 27, RHEL >= 8, or Amazon
    Linux >= 2023.
    
    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 document "Managing, Monitoring, and Updating the
    Kernel"[1] describes the kernel packages, including the kernel-modules
    introduced in RHEL 8.
    
    The Fedora commit that introduce the kernel-modules package (and added
    the kernel-module provides for that package) was committed in the fedora
    rpms/kernel repo[2] during the Fedora 27 development cycle:
    
        commit aa73513f1f7a605ef96dbee6801cfbb327336037
        Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
        Date:   Thu May 1 21:10:44 2014 -0400
    
           Rename kernel-drivers to kernel-modules
    
    [1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/index
    [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel.git
    
    Change-Id: Id3bd11b88127add17accdcb1402fccacef601d52
    Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/16942
    Reviewed-by: Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>
    Reviewed-by: Cheyenne Wills <cwills@sinenomine.net>
    Reviewed-by: Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>
    Tested-by: Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>

 src/packaging/RedHat/openafs-kmodtool | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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