On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullr...@loop.de> writes: > > Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > >> [Hans-J. Ullrich] > > >>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > >>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? > > >> Can you give an example? > > > No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the documentation and felt it a little > > bit too complicated for normal users. It is not the thing, I imagined. > > > Although, it might work for other people. > > The point of DKMS as I understand it is that it's not really for the > end-user, although they can of course use it. Providers of modules can > ship DKMS-aware packages, and then the right thing happens on both kernel > updates and on module source updates. > > I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered the > archive and love it. It's far more convenient than module-assistant, and > I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel module maintainers adopt it > as well.
How far more convenient is it ? As in it does the same thing as m-a install, but automatically ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
