Hi, On Monday 09 June 2008 01:55:51 David Paleino wrote: > > > DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be > > > upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to > > > rebuild > > > modules as you upgrade kernels. > > > > please elaborate on the advantages of this compared to the approach > > debian has taken: modules-source packages with m-a and prebuild modules > > through conglomeration packages. > > I'm just starting using dkms, and I've always used m-a, so I cannot really say > which one is better. > One example scenario I might think of is getting newer modules than the ones > present in Debian, at any given time. If a sysadmin needs a certain module he > should currently hack a bit to get m-a build the new source (I've experimented > this a while ago for ndiswrapper -- I needed a version newer than the one in > Debian -- but things might have changed since then). The drawback is that the > module isn't installed in a fancy .deb format. But, well, sysadmins should > know > what they're doing, shouldn't they?
Just wanted to add that Ubuntu kernel team member has published a presentation that gives more detailed information about DKMS from a packagers perspective. http://blog.phunnypharm.org/2008/07/dkms-presentation.html Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
