Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 May 2011 16:21:18 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path |
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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:37:27PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:02:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:44 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > > > > > Without this change, if you have two kernel rpms/debs from different > > > kernel versions installed, they'll result in a namespace conflict > > > (rpm/deb install will fail), which gets resolved by this patch. > > > > The packages are broken then. They shouldn't include *any* files > > in /lib/firmware. > > > > Fix *that*, and the problem goes away. > > Sounds good. > > Michal: Should I send you a patch that drops /lib/firmware?
make deb-pkg generates a separate package with the firmware files. I would suggest we do the same for rpm.
Michal
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