DKMS for megaraid_sas

Daniel De Marco ddm at bartol.udel.edu
Mon Mar 10 13:07:06 CDT 2008


* Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> [03/10/2008 13:54]:
> I've intentionally kept the build tools (gcc etc.) out of the listed
> Requires: for dkms, because dkms itself is usable on runtime systems
> with prebuilt binaries.  The build tools only come into play when
> rebuilding the source, but there's a very vocal crowd of people who do
> _not_ want build tools installed on their runtime systems.  Patch
> would fall into the 'build tools' category as well, it's only used
> during 'dkms build' time.

I just realized that I had the dkms package from dag repository
installed, instead of the dell one. That package has the developement
tools as prerequisites, but it is missing the patch dep. 
I then sent the mail to the wrong people.
Sorry for the confusion.

Daniel.



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