On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:26:42PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Richard has been kind enough to share his srpm, and I must admit that > for 3rd party kernel modules, the dkms approach seems easy. Much easier > than any kind of rpm packaging, as : > - Naming kernel module packages is hell. > - Keeping up with kernel packages updates is hell (Rawhide is worse). > - Keeping old kernels around to build against is hell. Frankly, I used the official kernel module packaging methodology by hand for a few weeks, then gave up. I've used DKMS for ecryptfs, unionfs, qvm86, and a few other drivers, and it is no hassle at all. Recent versions even have mkrpm and mkkmp (Kernel Module Package) commands. Bill Rugolsky -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
