Kernel module packages, the dkms approach

[Andre Costa]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:06:48 +0200
Matthias Saou
<thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For the very few kernel module packages I've released over the past
> years, I've gotten quickly tired of having to rebuild a whole bunch of
> binary rpms each time an updated kernel was released.
> 
> I've been wanting to try dkms for a while, since it has an approach of
> kernel module packaging that makes a packager's life much simpler, and
> an impatient end user's life easier too, as it recompiles kernel
> modules automatically (at boot time usually, can be before for initrd
> required modules, but it can usually be kept quite simple).
[...]
> Feel free to let the list know what you think about this approach. Any
> bug reports, fixes, enhancements or comments regarding this package
> are also very welcome.

I don't know how this voodoo works, but, hell, it works =) I just
upgraded kernel to 2.6.18-1.2200, did good old 'sudo smart install
nvidia-x11-drv' and... there it was, it just worked =)

So, thks a lot for making our life (a lot) easier with regards to nvidia
driver upgrades =)

Regards,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa