Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 00:12 +0100, Iustin Pop a écrit : > With my sysadmin hat on, compilation on servers is a *very* big no-no, > so if mkdeb doesn't work or if it doesn't provide nice modules, then m-a > should stay in.
Regardless, there should be a way to provide the modules without installing a compiler on servers. > I know that right now, when backporting stuff at work, we have to drop > the DKMS stuff and write our own packaging since DKMS doesn't play > nicely with multiple kernel versions, embedding the kernel *and* package > version in the final module version, etc. Things might have changed > recently, but last time I looked DKMS was only good for desktops, and > not as a reliable package-building method. Worse, it is not a reliable method *at all*. When you have several kernel versions installed, DKMS will only build the modules for one of them, so if you reboot to another kernel, you get a brick. -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297675263.3044.212.camel@meh
