Bug ID | 1214789 |
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Summary | Drop the raw / uncompressed kernel-firmware package |
Classification | openSUSE |
Product | openSUSE Tumbleweed |
Version | Current |
Hardware | Other |
OS | Other |
Status | NEW |
Severity | Normal |
Priority | P5 - None |
Component | Basesystem |
Assignee | screening-team-bugs@suse.de |
Reporter | tiwai@suse.com |
QA Contact | qa-bugs@suse.de |
Target Milestone | --- |
Found By | --- |
Blocker | --- |
Currently, kernel-firmware repo provides two different ways of packaging: one is the kernel-firmware.rpm that contains all firmware files in raw and uncompressed format, and another is the split of several subpackages with compressed files which are gathered by kernel-firmwre-all.rpm meta package. The former, kernel-firmware.rpm is still provided only for the legacy use cases (the old SLE), and kernel-firmware-all.rpm already has "Provides: kernel-firmware" as the better (much smaller) replacement. Now, we'd like to drop the old big kernel-firmware.rpm finally. But this needs fixing the dependencies in some package or images. As far as I see, the only package that has an explicit use of the uncompressed files is installation-images. This needs the changes to adapt kernel-firmwre-all and handling of compressed files. Also, KIWI images may have requires of kernel-firmware, and that might be a bigger problem.