[packages/kmod] base does not require -libs anymore. revert that?

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Mon Sep 23 21:12:39 CEST 2013


On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:37:44AM +0200, glen wrote:
> commit 5c0bad5ff2313504647c64ce4a34bf4e6504f5a6
> Author: Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee>
> Date:   Sat Sep 21 11:37:29 2013 +0300
> 
>     base does not require -libs anymore. revert that?
> 
>  kmod.spec | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/kmod.spec b/kmod.spec
> index 0aeb25f..8468b4a 100644
> --- a/kmod.spec
> +++ b/kmod.spec
> @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
>  # TODO
>  # - alias from /etc/modprobe.d/3.4.32.longterm-1/geninitrd.conf does not work for geninitrd
> +# - kmod no longer links with library dynamically since kmod-15:
> +#   kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested in
> +#   the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from installing the library

IMO we can safely switch back to dynamic linking with libkmod.
Even if we use dynamic kmod for initrd then copying libkmod is minimal
effort (kmod requires libz and liblzma anyway).


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