Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 August 2010 12:29:14 Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Of course it's
important if the kABI changes. If the kABI for which the KMP
> has been
built no longer matches the kABI of the installed/updated kernel
> the
module of the KMP simply cannot be loaded. We do not rebuild KMPs on
> the
user's machines when kABI has changed. That's not how KMPs work.
> Instead
for using KMPs kABI *must not* change.

Yes, of course. But we are talking
about preparation during a beta/RC phase, not about post-release changes. It
would be very possible to start working out the build issues for RC1
regardless of whether the ABI changes in RC2 or 3. The package prepared for
RC1 should still build, so when the gold master becomes available, you just
need to trigger a rebuild, and things should work out.

In the present case
I believe the biggest problem was that files had been moved around, and
those issues could have been solved when RC1 was released.

Obviously if the
ABI changes after the final release, it becomes more of a problem.

Anders
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