DKMS into Fedora Extras

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Feb 21 17:38:01 UTC 2005


Am Montag, den 21.02.2005, 11:13 -0600 schrieb Tom 'spot' Callaway:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:09 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> >>  and without requiring the user to have a development
> >> toolchain installed.
> >
> >? I don't understand you here. What do you mean by toolchain -- GCC,
> >make, kernel-devel are needed of course -- but they are also needed by
> >DKMS afaics. 
> 
> No, this is exactly what I mean. I think we can solve this problem
> without requiring the end-user to have gcc installed.

Well, could you enlighten me a bit on your thoughts? Seems I'm missing
something here... 

Of course we can rebuild kernel-modules in extras an push then the same
time when a new kernel goes out. Then we only have to solve the
install/yum/apt problem.


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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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