[Pkg-fglrx-devel] r776 - fglrx-driver/trunk/debian

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:41:37 +0200 Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2011-09-04 19:28, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > I think we only want to support dkms.  What does providing this gain us?
> > Is it needed for multiarch for some reason, and if so, why is dkms
> > insufficient?
> 
> dkms is not yet the ultimate solution for kernel modules. It's fine for
> desktop users with a single machine ... but I prefer to deploy locally
> prebuilt module packages instead of having servers compile them. And I
> take the responsibility for making an updated module available in case
> of kernel updates.
> I haven't tried the .deb building capabilities of dkms, but according to
> the BTS it's not doing what people expect. (And how can I do this
> without changing the running kernel module of the build machine? All
> *-dkms packages depend on dkms and build and install the module in their
> postinst)

This perphaps isn't ideal, but you can install the -dkms package with the
linux-headers packages not installed, which will result in no automatic
module installations.

If there are bugs with dkms's mkdeb, then let's identify what they really
are and get them fixed.  From my perspective, people just haven't understood
how to use it, and have just wanted to complain.  There aren't any real dkms
bugs with respect to mkdeb to fix right now [0].

Best wishes,
Mike

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/dkms