dkms for fc7?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 1/23/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:51:34PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > I hope we (Spot, mdomsch, Jon Masters, /me, maybe some others) can sit
> > down on the hackfest after fudon and work out a rough concept for the
> > future.
>
> I'd be happy to do so.  One of the things I need DKMS to do in the
> near future is to generate the new kernel module packages
> http://www.kerneldrivers.org/RedHatKernelModulePackages which is
> almost as wasy as dropping a new kmp spec file template in and calling
> 'dkms mkkmp' on it.  Then the init-time autobuilder (or better yet, a
> hook into /sbin/installkernel!!) could do the rebuild into srpm and
> binrpm and install that.  I'm very open to changing the packaging
> format, but the killer feature is the autobuilder when weak modules or
> pre-built modules  aren't present for "your kernel".
>
> In the past we've also gotten bit by rpm holding the database lock
> running %post, so a dkms driver rpm that discovers at install time in
> %post that it needs to build and install something can't actually
> generate and install an RPM because that would be recursive.
>

I solved that in the most ugly way in the past: at/cron

Evil Evil Evil, but works.


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