5/16/2007 Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Matthias Saou]

Jonathan Underwood wrote :

> On 17/05/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > /me resists the urge to ask why Fedora doesn't move to using dkms for
> > > kernel modules. Yes, I know, Fedora is primarily a binary
> > > distribution. The packaging of kernel modules that Mathias has been
> > > doing for freshrpms with dkms is living testament to the ease of that
> > > approach though. Oh dear, I didn't resist the urge.
> >
> > Because we will not assume our end users have full toolchains and kernel
> > devel environments simply to get a driver installed.
> 
> Yes I realize.. Fedora isn't gentoo... hence i was resisting the urge. :)

Yet dkms is currently the best way to distribute kernel module packages
for lazy packagers like me :-D And (most of the time), users aren't
pending for a 3rd party repository update in order to be able to update
to the latest errata kernel, which is a good thing, and because of this
many are willing to sacrifice the loss of disk space from gcc and
kernel-devel that it implies.

There's (still) no solution sticking out as "best" for now :-/

Matthias

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