Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 August 2010 13:06:41 Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03,
2010 at 12:59:54PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 August
2010 12:52:00 Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > That's an
> >
> > unsolvable one
for KPMs.
> > Why? We expose the ABI hashes as rpm "provides"
> > which
the KMP can "require", and it can require the kernel version number
> > as
minimum version. Where is the problem?
> So you're requesting several
KMPs using different package names to avoid
> package name conflicts for
kernels, which change their kABI? I believe I
> have enough fun with NVIDIA.
:-(

I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you how it is done today for
ofed and other KMPs we deliver for SLES and SLED through the maintenance
process. There is no need for different names, just updated version/release
numbers. The standard is to use the kernel version/release number that has
the changed ABI as part of the KMP release number.

If people update their
kernel, they will automatically get the KMP updated as well (or it gets
uninstalled because of missing dependencies, in case it hasn't been updated
yet), and if they want to keep the old kernel by installing the new with
"rpm -i" then they can do the same with the kmp.

The only changed names for
KMPs that I'm aware of is that we have one name per kernel flavour.

Anders
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