[OpenAFS] naive questions about openafs

[Alexander Boström]

fre 2005-01-21 klockan 16:24 +0100 skrev Guillaume Rousse:

> However, my biggest concern is the kernel module. I don't want to build 
> as part of the openafs package, because it is not scalable. Mandrake 
> policy for any kernel module is either to include it in the kernel 
> package, or to make it a dkms package. Basically, a dkms package is just 
> a module source ready to build, that is build at installation time, thus 
> fitting the running kernel on the installation target, and everytime it 
> the target kernel is rebuild also. So I'm actually tring to do it, but I 
>   have troubles with openafs build system.

Well, the usual Red Hat/Fedora way to do it is to have the source RPM
generate a binary RPM with the name kernel-module-openafs-$(uname -r)
which contains all the kernel-specific parts. Then you need to use the
source RPM to build a new kernel module. This is what I do with the Arla
RPMs.

/abo