On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Jack Neely<[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm Jack Neely and I'm the linux guy at NC State University. (Where Red > Hat's corperate HQ is located.) I maintain our RHEL-based > customizations, and other tools for managing a couple thousand Linux > machines around campus. I helped design the original kmod version 1 > standard and maintain a Yum plugin to do all sorts of evil with those > kmods. I'm hoping RPMFusion will make my job easier and have a few > questions. > > RPMFusion maintains all the kernel modules I'm interested in supporting > (and more) in RHEL 6 and our Fedora deployments (which really don't > exist yet). I would contribute OpenAFS to complete the set.
Hey, welcome Jack > > I assume folks are interested in having OpneAFS, the nVidia drivers, > Open VM Tools, and other stuff maintained for EL6? Actually people would. however, some stuff need to be done to get things work from RPM Fusion > What will be the > relationship with EPEL in for EL6-land? You'll sure have better comment about it at epel@ list. > > What about EL5? Is there interest in using the older kmod v1 standard > to add kernel modules there? > > Are the kmod builds automated or must jobs be submitted to rebuild those > for each kernel? I plan on extending my yum module to know what to do > in this case for kmodv2 as well. Build request for each kernel release. For EL5, i would stay on kmodv1 and move on to kmodv[1-2] for EL6. -- Xavier.t Lamien -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XavierLamien GPG-Key ID: F3903DEB Fingerprint: 0F2A 7A17 0F1B 82EE FCBF 1F51 76B7 A28D F390 3DEB
