[Fedora-packaging] Kernel modules packaged for dkms

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 15:47 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:00 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matthias Saou wrote:
> >>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote :
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>> Well, dkms kernel-modules are not directly forbidden (at least it's not
> >>>> written down somewhere), but we choose to use kmod for kernel-module
> >>>> packages -- so they are not allowed AFAICS.
> >>>
> >>> Then I'd like the people who pushed the kmod scheme to be accepted to
> >>> try and get it to be 100% functional ASAP, as the whole build server
> >>> side, to get automated rebuilds for all newly released kernels is quite
> >>> far from being implemented (unless I'm mistaken).
> >>
> >> IIRC dkms was never *really* considered for the kernel module standard,
> >> everybody was too busy arguing over uname-r in name, how to handle
> >> debuginfo packages, what kind of macro magic to include, how many kernels
> >> to build for in buildsys, how to teach the kmod scheme to buildsys etc.
> >>
> >
> > I think dkms is a good solution for sysadmins managing a bunch of
> > systems - but for our use situation it causes issues b/c we want people
> > to be able to install and use kernel modules w/o having to build them
> > and/or have all the build tools installed.
> 
> Requiring clients to have build tools installed is a downside to dkms, 
> yes, but me thinks it's really just a minor nuisance compared to the 
> hideous mess of kernel module rpms.
> 

I disagree. I'd rather not force users on laptops to be exposed to that
level of pain.

-sv