dkms coreward for fc5? (was Re: What next?)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:16 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:26:27PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, DKMS solves the wrong problem.  As long as the
> > user has to have a compiler installed to use it, it's not useful.
> 
> You don't have to have a compiler on the target systems.  *If* you've
> got a compiler, and choose to invoke the build system (either through
> AUTOINSTALL="yes" on a per-package basis, or manually), then it yes,
> you can use the compiler to build.  But it's not strictly required.
> Point in fact, Dell's factory install process doesn't invoke the
> compiler at all - it uses the precompiled modules from each package.
> The build system needs a compiler, the target systems don't.

Allow me to clarify.

If DKMS is to be the solution to Jef's problem (which is that the kernel
modules in the devel tree don't match the kernel in the devel tree),
then you need to have a compiler on the system so you can recompile
whenever the kernel changes.  Or we get into the build system trigger
stuff I talked about (at which point, we should be doing it with the
packaging system anyway IMHO)

Jeremy