Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:45:51PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> 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.

Rebuilding the packages against openSUSE 11.3 took me about an hour or
something like that. It has been built against Factory all the time
anyway. This wasn't an issue at all. Adjusting the specfiles for 256.35 was
done at a later point.

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

That's an unsolvable one for KPMs.

Best regards,
Stefan

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