Re: RFS: dkms
Hi,
On Monday 09 June 2008 01:55:51 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?
Just wanted to add that Ubuntu kernel team member has published a presentation
that gives more detailed information about DKMS from a packagers perspective.
http://blog.phunnypharm.org/2008/07/dkms-presentation.html
Thanks, Kel.
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