On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:00 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote : > > > > [...] > >> Well, dkms kernel-modules are not directly forbidden (at least it's not > >> written down somewhere), but we choose to use kmod for kernel-module > >> packages -- so they are not allowed AFAICS. > > > > Then I'd like the people who pushed the kmod scheme to be accepted to > > try and get it to be 100% functional ASAP, as the whole build server > > side, to get automated rebuilds for all newly released kernels is quite > > far from being implemented (unless I'm mistaken). > > IIRC dkms was never *really* considered for the kernel module standard, > everybody was too busy arguing over uname-r in name, how to handle > debuginfo packages, what kind of macro magic to include, how many kernels > to build for in buildsys, how to teach the kmod scheme to buildsys etc. > I think dkms is a good solution for sysadmins managing a bunch of systems - but for our use situation it causes issues b/c we want people to be able to install and use kernel modules w/o having to build them and/or have all the build tools installed. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
