[repo-coord] Re: Zero-tolerance educational methods for promoting questionable policies???

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Mind you that you're still messing things up. First of all, the versioning 
> of the kernel-modules is *still* not decided. Both Matthias (freshrpms) 
> and myself are not convinced about putting kernel-version and 
> kernel-release in the package name.
> 
> I understand there's no other alternative than the one proposed, except 
> changing apt and yum or a seperate tool. And both Panu and Seth, iirc, 
> didn't like that idea.
> 
> Both Matthias and I have objected to it because it is counter-intuitive, 
> confusing and just plain ugly. Contrary to what you may think, I don't 
> object to the idea technically.

Without getting to the politics of this, fedora.us apt nowadays supports
the kernel-module-foo-`uname -r` packages almost transparently. Means

- 'apt-get install kernel-module-alsa' will fetch you a suitable version 
of the package, never mind the ugly full name
- Upgrading (well, installing new) kernel will pull along new versions of 
any kernel-module packages you have installed for the new kernel (with 
"install kernel" and with "dist-upgrade")

Users do love it :) Oh and nothing fedora.us specific there (other than 
the exact package naming which has been proposed and discussed here as 
well), the lua-magic needed for can be used with any newish apt version.

	- Panu -