Re: NVIDIA dkms srpms

["Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky telemetry-investments com>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:26:42PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Richard has been kind enough to share his srpm, and I must admit that
> for 3rd party kernel modules, the dkms approach seems easy. Much easier
> than any kind of rpm packaging, as :
> - Naming kernel module packages is hell.
> - Keeping up with kernel packages updates is hell (Rawhide is worse).
> - Keeping old kernels around to build against is hell.
 
Frankly, I used the official kernel module packaging methodology
by hand for a few weeks, then gave up.

I've used DKMS for ecryptfs, unionfs, qvm86, and a few other drivers,
and it is no hassle at all.  Recent versions even have mkrpm and mkkmp
(Kernel Module Package) commands.

	Bill Rugolsky