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Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Mar 11 17:35:27 UTC 2005


Once upon a time, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> said:
> Only if you use DKMS as is.  But if you take it as a starting point
> (i.e. what Mr. Rugolsky suggested) and make its output not an
> installed module but a kernel-module-whatever RPM then end users
> wouldn't need the development packages.

Someone can build and distribute kernel module RPMs today; they don't
need DKMS for that.  DKMS is a way for someone to distribute source so
that users don't have to care that they updated to a new kernel.  If
they still have to download an RPM for the updated module, then nothing
has changed.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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