Re: Current status of kernel modules
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 14.10.2007 18:40, Stewart Adam wrote:
> What are your comments, ideas or opinions about packaging kernel
> modules? Fedora has technically banned them AFAIK, but that won't go
> well for the proprietary drivers... Should we have both kmod and dkms
> available, or maybe something else?
Some notes from my side:
* I'm fine with either using both kmods and dkms for all modules or
banning modules for the start completely and leaving them in freshrpms
and livna for now. The latter is *iirc* what thias suggested last time
we talked about it
I'm strongly against leaving kmod's / dkms in the old repo's we want the old
repo's to go away. Not because the old repo's are bad, but for clarity to the
end user.
* "or maybe something else" -- I have some stuff here on my
machine that
can dynamically rebuild and install kmod.src.rpms. But well, it's not
ready for primetime yet. Other work (mainly for rpmfusion) kept me away
from it :-/
Well for both ati and nvidea spec files have been made which build both kmod
and dkms, with them both using the same userspace support, so the user can
choose (or yum will choose the shortest named one if the user doesn't, but foes
install the userspace part).
Regards,
Hans