[Yum-devel] kmod2 and livna folks

Jack Neely jjneely at ncsu.edu
Thu May 1 20:24:20 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:18:46PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:16 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > As kernel modules are no longer included in Fedora, most of the work
> > being put into the improved kmod stuff has passed out of the circle of
> > things I normally pay attention to.  So I've been reading about the
> > kmod2 and akmod stuff on rpmfusion.org.
> > 
> > Are folks still using the yum-fedorakmod plugin with the newer kmod
> > work?  Is there other yum magic to distribute kernel modules in sync
> > with the latest, greatest kernel?
> > 
> > Or more generically, what should I be looking to do with fedorakmod in
> > the future?
> 
> Making it as painful as possible so users stop using horrible 3rdparty
> kernel modules?
> 
> -sv
> 

I tried to make the code as eye-bleeding as possible.

But other than that, I must support AFS at a large scale and wish my
work to be open source so this is only an added plus.  :-)

Jack

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