Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 01:23:33 UTC 2007


On 8/3/07, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> By DKMS payloads, are you referring to DKMS-packaged source RPMs for
> the modules in question?  So that a user would install dkms-foo-mod and
> then use dkms to build and install it?


I wouldn't necessarily package them as source rpms.  I'd want them to
be noarch packages that people can install and get updates for, as bug
fixes come down the pipe. But to make use of them they'd have to
install dkms and the necessary build tools themselves which dkms makes
use of.

-jef




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