On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:34:28AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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. To be fair, DKMS doesn't strictly require the build tools and/or kernel-$foo-devel be installed. (The current Extras requirement that kernel-devel be installed is, IMHO, a mistake, but FE Review strongly asked for it). It's designed to use kernel-devel and a toolchain if present and no prebuilt module exists for your currently running kernel. Like the current FE kmod proposal, the build system *could* rebuild *dkms drivers for the new kernel, and repackage them in the *dkms package. Exactly the same pain is needed for kmods; DKMS just gives you an "out" if you've got a toolchain and kernel-devel installed but your package provider hasn't (yet) respun their *dkms package. 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 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
