Hi Daniel, I seem to have missed your mail, sorry. On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:01:39 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > 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? Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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