Re: Proposed package updates

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:23:30AM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> Alexander Guy writes:
> > What are the chances of getting the provides code working? It'd be
> > nice to have stowaway depend on a provides for ``stowaway-kernel-module''
> > (or somesuch), and have stowaway-modules-2.4.3-rmk2-np1_ipkg2 provide
> > said ``provides''.
>
> "Provides" support is bubbling up my priority list rather quickly. In
> the meantime though, there is a much easier fix. Let's just drop all
> these redundant versions from the kernel module package names, (ie. we
> should have a package named kernel_modules rather than
> kernel_moduls-2.4.3-rmk2-np1). The version information will still be
> in the package and will still show up in the version section of the
> package file name, (where it belongs).
>
> Getting rid of these versions from the names will ease maintenance
> considerably.

My only issue is that having parallel kernel modules is required in some
cases, like when you're upgrading your kernel.

Alexander
Received on Fri May 11 11:46:01 2001