[Bug 1214789] New: Drop the raw / uncompressed kernel-firmware package
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https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214789 Bug ID: 1214789 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #5 from Takashi Iwai
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--- Comment #7 from Takashi Iwai
installation-images has historically these (kernel) firmware dependencies:
BuildRequires: adaptec-firmware BuildRequires: bcm43xx-firmware BuildRequires: kernel-firmware BuildRequires: atmel-firmware BuildRequires: ipw-firmware
Can this be reduced to simply kernel-firmware resp. (after the transition) kernel-firmware-all?
AFAIK, all those (except for kernel-firmware) seem to be the non-upstreamed stuff, so they are still needed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #9 from Eugenio Paolantonio
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