[Cluster-devel] kernel packaging split up landing in Rawhide

[Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:56:29AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Nothing at the moment.  Later this week I'm going to look at enabling
> auto-provides for kernel modules in the various kernel packages.  This
> will make situations like this much more flexible, as gfs2-utils will
> be able to Requires: gfs2.ko (or whatever it is) instead of the
> package name.  That will allow us to move modules around without
> breaking packages, and potentially get ride of k-m-e down the road.

That would be useful for libguestfs too.  It has a pretty well defined
list of kernel modules that it needs.

> Once the auto-provides are enabled, I'll go through the tracker bug
> Bruno has open and fix up the userspace package requires.

Which is the tracker bug?

Rich.

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