On 9/22/09, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 9/22/09, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Well maybe a dkms port to 'extras' wouldn't be asking too much? >> >> It's in EPEL, if we can leverage off that... > > It really is important to have the dkms kmod and dkms located in the > same repo for dependancy reasons. I would also expect it to be so. I only mentioned EPEL in the sense that there is a spec and src that is known to work... > Another problem with dkms kmods is the development requirements, which > can be troublesome in some deployments. That reminds me to update the > dkms module install dependencies to include the development > environment. I see the dkms option in iet spec, and will add that as another test element. > It might be possible to have a dkms kmod though alongside a kabi > tracking kmod, dkms will supercede the kabi module, and put it back > when/if the dkms module is removed. Seems like a reasonable thing to try. jerry