Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages
"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:
> Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson:
>> [Hans-J. Ullrich]
>>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and
>>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules?
>> Can you give an example?
> No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the documentation and felt it a little
> bit too complicated for normal users. It is not the thing, I imagined.
> Although, it might work for other people.
The point of DKMS as I understand it is that it's not really for the
end-user, although they can of course use it. Providers of modules can
ship DKMS-aware packages, and then the right thing happens on both kernel
updates and on module source updates.
I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered the
archive and love it. It's far more convenient than module-assistant, and
I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel module maintainers adopt it
as well.
I provide both that and a traditional openafs-modules-source for those who
want to use module-assistant or kernel-package.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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