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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 May 2004 17:39:10 +0200
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[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Jarek,
>
> Another approach that is interesting is dkms...
>
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html

Yes, indeed: I've seen this one too.

> This can be used to automatically rebuild external
> modules after a kernel upgrade.  It requires the
> kernel-source to be present.  I'm using this for
> some of my in house kernel modules.

Looks quite interesting: there was even some discussion
about it among people packaging kernel modules.

Definitely the strong point is the automation of
module rebuilding process: but it does not give the automation
of updates magic (I think ...)

Could dkms be used to build kernel-module-<foo>-<kversion>
packages by any chance ?

Jarek
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