[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs spec-file kernel-detection

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 10:23 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal@linux.duke.edu> writes:
> 
> >> What about yum repositories?  (Or is that the same thing?)
> >
> > They're not the same thing and yum (rpm-metadata) repositories include
> > all of the file dependencies and therefore can solve for any/all file
> > dependencies. Moreover, apt-rpm in current development can use
> > yum-repository metadata instead of the apt-only format.
> 
> Okay, so perhaps longer term we could drop the kernel-{,type-}{arch}
> dependency, but for now, for the next release, let's see how it
> goes...
> 

You'd probably be best off for fedora/rhel following the fedora extras
kernel module packaging specification and for novell/suse following the
KMP spec.

-sv