On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 13:47 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Mandriva took DKMS and hacked it up so that it creates both pre-built > > binaries and 'source' packages (much like kmods and akmods in the kmod > > system), so that if you have a system without the build chain things > > will work as long as you're running a supported kernel and the updates > > are in sync, but if you have the whole build chain, the 'source' DKMS > > package covers you if you're running a different kernel or whatever. RPM > > Fusion does much the same by providing both kmods and akmods. > > I do wish MDV would send such patches upstream... I always had to go > hunting for patches. If they've not been, I'm not sure why; MDV usually likes upstreaming stuff because they're extremely under-resourced when it comes to developers, so everyone wants their life to be easier :). It may just be that they felt the patches were sufficiently extensive/hacky that Dell may not want them. Anyhoo, you can find this stuff in MDV SVN: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/dkms/current/ A good guy to talk to about MDV's changes to DKMS would be Olivier Blin, oblin@xxxxxxxxxxxx . I think he'd know most things you'd want to ask. Sending off list as we appear to be somewhat off topic :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
