On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:34:06PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Ok, so there are two things here.
The first is whether the goal is to identify arbitrary kernels. From my perspective, it's not. I only want to be able to identify kernels that are part of the official release and, as such, kernels that are under the limited amount of maintenance and support we offer for openSUSE.
Ok, so then just stick with what we have here, since when do people start running SLES kernels on openSUSE boxes and ask for support? A simple: $ rpm -qi kernel-desktop | grep Distribution Distribution: openSUSE:Tumbleweed should be able to detect what distro the kernel should be "for".
The second is whether it's enough to put the information in the RPM metadata. I don't think it is.
Why not, it's already there with the "Distribution" tag. I thought that is what it is for, if not, what is that tag to be used for?
We have that now with the Git commit and Branch tags in the package description. The goal is for tools like uname -r to show the distinction at runtime and for mechanisms like Oopes and WARN_ONs to show it when the kernel fails. I'd like them to be easily and uniquely identifiable as official releases without adding another error-prone feedback loop into the bug reporting cycle.
Then why not just do this for SLES kernels, as that seems to be where you have worries about. Or just keep the list of "known valid" openSUSE kernels somewhere obvious so that the bugzilla triagers can weed things out.
Unless this is going to change for all packages in SLES I don't see the benefit for openSUSE.
I must not understand the point you're trying to make here. I don't see why it makes any difference for any packages other than kernel packages for this case.
What makes the kernel so special? Why isn't this an issue for Samba? Libreoffice? mutt? :)
Perhaps the answer isn't to change it in the version string in the package but to enable the .dist tag for the RPMs built in official releases so that the kernel inherits it automatically.
I think that's already there, see above. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org