DKMS into Fedora Extras

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 16:29:29 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 07:07 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

>A (small?) init-script could do this. This could also try first to
>download the module from the web if it available -- this way you also
>don't need to have special kernel-module-* magic in yum.
>
>I'll sit down the next days and code something up to show you. AFAICS it
>should not be to hard (but maybe I'm wrong)...

This is one of the problems that we need to solve, so I'm very
interested in seeing your approach.

However, I think it is important that whatever solution we adopt "just
works" with yum, and without requiring the user to have a development
toolchain installed.

~spot
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