5/16/2007 Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Till Maas]

On Do Mai 17 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> In addition to what spot said: On the last FUDCon we discussed kernel
> module packaging with some people. The outcome roughly was to work on a
> new kernel module packaging standard solves both problems: create
> pre-compiled kernel-module packages that can be put in a repo for users
> to install; in addition create a dkms/dkms-like solution as rpm in the
> repo that users *can* install that will to get their modules rebuild for
> the current kernel (on boot?) *if* it's not available .

With a simple patch to dkms (don't know, whether or not it is required), that 
makes dkms only compile a new module, when there is none installed, this is 
already possible.

Regards,
Till