Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 07/11/2007 01:37 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> The attached patch switches the kernel rpm over from including the >> current static kernel-*.config files to instead including the config-* >> files that are actually in cvs. >> >> It means we don't leave kernel-*.config droppings all over the place >> (following a rebase, its entirely too easy to end up with >> kernel-2.6.21-*.config and kernel-2.6.22-*.config files laying about, >> which can sometimes cause odd things to happen), and we don't modify >> SOURCE files in %prep (see bug 232602), which could otherwise result in >> repacking an srpm with the same n-v-r with different kernel-*.config >> files. As a bonus, along the way, this cleans up a number of rpmlint >> warnings (though there are still a TON to poke at). >> >> In the future, this would also make life easier for the RHEL6 and later >> maintainers, as we typically prefer config changes against the config-* >> files, rather than against the kernel-*.config files, but (most) non-rh >> folks don't have cvs access to get at the config-* files right now. >> >> Thus far, the only real downside is that it requires moving all the >> config-* files up to the root of the kernel cvs dir, which is 1) a bit >> messy and 2) results in losing prior versioning history on those files, >> since cvs blows. >> > > 1) No big deal, though. > > 2) There's not much relevant history in there anyway.
My thoughts exactly. (Hell, I'd even like to 'mv kernel-2.6.spec kernel.spec', but davej seems to not like that idea so much... ;) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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