On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:29:13PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > the most wonderful thing about tiggers. Is tiggers are wonderful things. > However, triggers are not. They should be handled with excruciating > care, like epochs. Now, in this situation you're describing you want an > rpm to spawn off some other process to go fetch new kernel module rpms? > > How would you standardize and mandate that? Remember, %scriptlets cannot > be user-interactive. Perhaps DKMS would be a more suitable solution then... (It can be used for open-source as well as closed-source software BTW. For instance, Dell used to use it to preload ALSA on some of their computers back in the Red Hat 8.0 days. Upgrading the kernel would cause the ALSA modules to be recompiled when booting into the new kernel, so everything kept working.) http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
