On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:55 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> With hundreds of servers, we'd rather not install compilers and DKMS on > >> every one of them, and with lots of machines, the loss of > >> reproducibility from separately compiling the modules on every system > >> is an increasingly large drawback. > > > This is why DKMS has the facility to build packages for installation > > elsewhere. > > But there would be no purpose served in using DKMS for this. The only > place where DKMS has an advantage over building real Debian packages for > the modules is if you're going to let every machine build its own modules. [...] DKMS does build real Debian packages. And that means that OOT module sources do not need to be packaged differently depending on where the modules will be built. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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