Am Samstag, den 06.05.2006, 04:46 -0500 schrieb Arthur Pemberton: > On 5/6/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 06.05.2006, 04:33 -0500 schrieb Arthur Pemberton: > > > On 5/6/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > When will the updated kmod-ntfs packages be available? > > They are building currently -- will probably take two or three hours > > until all kmod's are build and published (I tried to build them > > yesterday evening [CET], but the buildsys got stuck -- that's life). > Cool. I am kinda curious about the whole process behind this. Livna uses plague now, just as extras does. > Is it > all automated or what? No(t yet). > If it is, maybe a SETI type distributed cluster > for recompiling such kernel dependant packages would come in handy. Well, multiple build machines would help. But they need to be trusted (and maintained), and that's the biggest problem ;-) > > > Yah, you really have look out for those kmod dependencies. I know of > > > know mechanismn in yum to automate this. > > Someone was working on a yum-plugin to optimize the handling of kmods. > > Don't know what's the current status of it. > Sweet. It isn't really that big a deal, however, I suppose such a > plug, installed by default would be handy. Well, it is needed to make everything really smooth. But most things work fine currently, too. > BTW and OT, the madwifi drivers I got from Livna for FC5 do not work > properly at all, while those I had from ATrpms for FC4 worked > perfectly. Any suggestions on where to start troubleshooting? No idea -- I only packaged them because it seemed a lot of people were interested in them. I have never used them myself. CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
