On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:04:57PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is there some obvious reason why DKMS, > > > > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms > > > > is an _unacceptable_ starting point? > > It would require to make the development package a requirement for > every install. This is false. DKMS can work equally well with tarballs/RPMs of prebuilt kernel modules, or (if you've got a compiler) it builds from source for the kernels you've got installed. > Currently the desktop install comes without a compiler. And in the Dell factory install process, even though the compiler may get installed, we definitely don't want it to have to run. Hence the tarballs/RPMs containing prebuilt modules. I agree it would be nice for the Fedora kernel build system to automatically generate RPMs containing prebuilt modules for each new kernel that comes out. In this case, the build system would simply invoke DKMS {build, mkrpm} commands to accomplish this, for each kernel version / architecture / extra module. Not really all that tricky, it's what Dell does for our extra modules often. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
