The FedoraKmod project has a couple updates today. I’ve added enough magic so that a package is easily built from the Git repository with “make srpm”. I’ve also fixed a condition when a kernel was removed from the transaction set because not all of the required kmods were available that some kmods requiring that kernel were still left in the transaction. Yum would install the kernel then anyway.
Well, there’s talk on the yum-devel list about removing the kernel module helper plugins from yum-utils. This appears to include the plugin I wrote to support the Fedora Kmod standard which is now a bit out dated by the work in RPMFusion. (Although, I still use it heavily with RHEL 5.) Things don’t appear decided yet, but Fedora is not a friendly place for kernel modules. Unfortunately, this seems to apply to standards and code that would make third party kernel modules easier to deal with as well.
In any case I now claim to be upstream for the FedoraKmod yum plugin. The Git repo is below and you can find a Git Web interface link on the right side navigation menu. I should have a dedicated page up for it soon.
git clone git://linuxczar.net/fedorakmod.git