newbie questions

[Jon Masters]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 08:10 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

> - forcing a call to /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller during kernel upgrade
> (using %post, or in my case by hijacking /sbin/weak-modules) might not
> work, due to the fact that kernel-devel for that kernel version might
> not be installed yet.

That's an interesting point.

I'm working on modifying weak-modules in RHEL5 to be more friendly with
DKMS users, so that it'll let you call your own scripts automatically.
But you're right that we might not have the -devel package installed at
the moment that we call the weak-modules script. That possibly means we
need to do something ugly...but I need to think some more :-)

Matt, do you have any particular preference about when/how this happens?

Just to repeat the point about DKMS/RHEL, etc. DKMS is fantastic, but we
didn't use it directly in RHEL5 because we need to support users who are
choosing never to install development packages, toolchains, etc. Because
of that, we support binary packaged kernel modules with special ABI
tracking of kernel compatibility, including sample qla2xxx ;-)

Jon.