From: Daniel P. Berrangé on
gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2917#note_1805...
Note, creating "-common" sub-package still doesn't give
us a way to create
kernel-version-independent addons, we will have to introduce a
new srpm for
that.
No we don't. It merely means that the `kernel-uki-virt-addons-common` package
will be re-built on every kernel update, even if there were no addon changes.
The `-common` package from version `x.y.z` will be usable with UKI
`x.y.(z-1)`, and vica-versa.
The reason for the split is to cope with the different install scenarios. For
the global addons (in `-common`) a host will only ever need 1 copy of the RPM
installed, and the versin of the `-common` package installed need not match
the version of the UKI currently booted. For the per-version addons, a host
will need one or more copies of the RPM installed - one copy matching each
`kernel-uki-virt` that's installed.