Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (131 mails)

["Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 February 2010, 21:11:09 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2.2.2010 18:13, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> > On 02/02/2010 11:15 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > * Hans-Peter Jansen (hpj@xxxxxxxxx) [20100202 16:55]:
> > > > Am I supposed to install a kernel-dummy package or should this
> > > > prevent me
> > >
> > > Using kernel-dummy was AFAIK the way to sync versions across all
> > > kernel packages. I'll have to let others explain just how that worked
> > > in detail though.
> >
> > Yep, that's how it worked before the build service existed (and still
> > works on the old SUSE-internal build service). It defines the
> > kernel-dummy package, which only exists to provide a version and
> > release number - and then the other packages inherit it via some build
> > system magic.
> >
> > The problem is that the old build system didn't define any variables
> > that could be used to key off of, so the opensuse_bs variable ends up
> > being used as "not using the old build system" variable.
>
> BTW, we removed all traces of kernel-dummy in 11.2 and later, it stayed
> in 11.1 only by accident.

Great, these answers fulfill all my hopes ;-)

Pete


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