On 10.12.2008 12:06, Felix Kaechele wrote:
I'm trying to package the zaptel drivers for RPMFusion. I ran into the problem that zaptel (which is in Fedora) removed it's "Provides: zaptel-kmod-common" in late 2006. Now, of course, there are dependency problems when trying to install the kmod. Is it absolutely necessary to depend on kmod-common or can this be deactivated somewhere in the spec?
Right now there is no easy way around it. And I'm unsure if there should be one: Each package normally has a license and a Readme that need to be packaged somewhere. That what the common package was designed for.
Or should I contact the Maintainer of zaptel in Fedora and ask him to provide zaptel-kmod-common within his package again?
That is likely the easiest solution, yes. You could also submit a small zaptel-kernel-module (or something like that) package that provides zaptel-kmod-common and shipts docs, license and readme, just like the small rt28{67}0 packages do.
Cu knurd
