Am 26.09.2011 21:54, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> normally the kmod-packages are updated the same time >> as the kernel in stable repos, but you can not guarantee >> this for external repos everytime, especially that the >> mirror you catched is recent enough > > But akmods are a very hackish solution to that problem. Building modules on > the end user system sucks on a binary distribution. It drags in the whole > GCC toolchain, kernel-devel and the source code for the modules and the > whole system is a huge kludge, as evidenced also by this thread. > > The right solution is for the user to just uncheck the kernel from the list > of packages to update in the PackageKit GUI of choice (be it gnome- > packagekit, KPackageKit or Apper) if the kmod doesn't show up along with it. > It's not rocket science. well - nobody is forcing you to use akmod there are kmod-open-vm-tools AND akmod-open-vm-tools as example i have the akmod-packages on the buildmachine if there is an important security-kernel-update and kmod packages not available this machine builds the binaries the other machines get the kernel-update via deployment-scripts AND the pre-compiled kernel-modules from akmod
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