Would you be interested in adding support for the kmdl scheme to yum
(or a plugin) *before* a decision is made?
I'm suggesting this because kernel module handling is for many in this
list too abstract to discuss on paper and a live demonstration using
yum and kmdls would certainly help moving on on this subject here. A
bash shell script doing it is 9 lines, so I hope for you it would be
almost trivial to pluginize.
Even if the decision can't be made in time for FC6 (which effectively
would mean to keep the current scheme) it would not be a waste of time
as it is already in use at ATrpms, and many users want to see yum
auto-coinstalling them upon new kernels.
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If you'd like to contribute a Yum plugin or patches to one of the
existing 2 they are in the yum-utils project. They're not hard to write and
there are a handful of good examples now. My time is going toward the
current proposal.
Panu does have a plugin in yum-utils to support a uname-r in name scheme
for kernel modules. Looks like it needs to be updated a bit, but
perhaps that could be a starting point for your work.
Jack
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