Re: DKMS usage (was: rawhide report: 20050310 changes)

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On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 07:44 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Yes, it can.  It uses the headers/Makefile left in
> /lib/modules/${kernelversion}/build/ from the kernel RPM.  (That is,
> <= FC3, as I see FC4-rawhide will require kernel-devel packages be
> installed on the build system, no real big suprise there though).

...

> The multiple-architecture thing gets a little tricky, I have to
> admit.  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ doesn't take in having multiple
> architectures on the file system.  But that's OK, DKMS can be passed 
> --kernelsourcedir=source-location  and

And kernel-devel actually helps the multiple architecture situation
since the kernel-devel packages install into architecture dependent
paths so that you can have as many of them installed as you want.

Jeremy


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