Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (79 mails)

[Coly Li <coly.li@xxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger Wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009 09:58:34 Michal Marek wrote:
> > Andreas Jaeger napsal(a):
> > > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:55:33 Coly Li wrote:
> > > > fs/dlm and fs/ocfs2 are not shipped in default opensuse kernel config.
> > > > If user DO want to use ocfs2 and dlm in openSUSE kernel, at least he or
> > > > she should, 1) recompile the kernel (enable ocfs2 and dlm) with
> > > > /etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules sets allow_unsupported_modules as 1
> > > > 2) and install ocfs2-tools with --nodeps.
> > > Note: Supported/unsupported does not make sense for openSUSE at all and
> > > therefore there's no -extra kernel with openSUSE anymore, this concept
> > > does not make sense for openSUSE.
> > >
> > > So, my recommendation here is for openSUSE 11.2 is either:
> > > * revive the ocfs2-kmp packager or
> > > *  enable ocfs2,dlm in the kernel-package and put proper
> > > obsoletes/provides in place
> > Or drop the dependency on ocfs2-kmp in 11.2 ocfs2-tools.
>
> Both IMO - we should obsolete it so that an update from 11.1 works fine - and 
> we should not require it.
>
> I've just fixed ocfs2-tools to not require it now and submitted to the devel 
> project (sr#21383),

Should we maintain 2 ocfs2-tools for openSUSE and SLE ?

In SLES11 HAE, the ocfs2-kmp dependence makes sure once ocfs2-tools is
installed, ocfs2-kmp will also be installed. The similar situation also happens
to libdlm packages.


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Coly Li
SuSE Labs
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