5/16/2007 Broken upgrade paths in F7

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Thu May 17 15:43:21 UTC 2007


On 17/05/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > /me resists the urge to ask why Fedora doesn't move to using dkms for
> > kernel modules. Yes, I know, Fedora is primarily a binary
> > distribution. The packaging of kernel modules that Mathias has been
> > doing for freshrpms with dkms is living testament to the ease of that
> > approach though. Oh dear, I didn't resist the urge.
>
> Because we will not assume our end users have full toolchains and kernel
> devel environments simply to get a driver installed.

Yes I realize.. Fedora isn't gentoo... hence i was resisting the urge. :)




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