Axel.Thimm at ATrpms
Oct 24, 2009, 10:54 PM
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 04:29:05PM -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> I wonder if it would be easier if the nvidia rpm compiled itself
> against the running kernel. The VirtualBox rpms do this. That would
> be many less versions for Axel to maintain and obscure kernel runners
> would have a chance to install on unsupported kernels.
It's simply a rpmrebuild on the src.rpm against the kernel-devel
package.
I had (or have) a project creating dkmdl on the fly on the users'
systems, but there are drawbacks, for one you need to allow these
systems to carry developer tools like a compiler and some systems are
supposed to be tightened up for security. And there is the issue of
reproducibility - the per-user-built kmdls would differ from system to
system and bug reports could be locally generated issues. vmware had
this issue quite a lot (which used the same principle like
virtualbox).
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