Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed
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.
As soon as you are distributing modules built once to multiple machines,
using DKMS to do that is vaguely absurd: you have to reinvent all the
mechanisms of a repository and package upgrade system, when we already
have a perfectly useful and reasonable one in apt repositories with
package versioning and proper dependencies.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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