[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] change OpenAFS-1.2.10 SRPM to work better with RedHat

[Derek Atkins]

Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, David Howells wrote:
> 
> > Another reason for stripping that building against multiple kernel sources is
> > that it RPM can't do prerequisite dependency properly otherwise. And not being
> > able to do that renders automated package delivery more difficult.
> 
> We've had some other complaints about this, I think some still have open
> tickets in RT. It would be nice to have it "right".

I'm not convinced it's the building against multiple kernels that's
the issue, but rather it's the inclusion of modules for multiple
kernels in a single RPM without a specific Requires directive.

I agree that having per-kernel module packages is the "right thing".

-derek

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