On 10/01/2010 12:12 PM, Andy Cobaugh wrote:
... or it may not. I've seen dkms fail to build openafs.ko too many
times. After so many users complaining that they didn't have a home
directory after they turned their machine on and couldn't log in, we
gave in and switched to using the kmod-openafs package.
Others may have other experiences with dkms, but it's certainly an
option if it works for you.
Most of the failures I've seen have been because the 'gcc' package isn't
installed. I'm not sure why it isn't a dependency for dkms.
To be honest, it's not the best solution. I've been looking at
switching to what Fedora/RPMFusion is using, 'akmod', which builds a
kmod- package and installs it. This seems to be the way that Fedora
(and subsequently RHEL) packagers are moving.
In my environment, I only use dkms on testing workstations. We don't
roll out new kernels to all systems unless the kmod-openafs and other
kmod packages for graphics cards are built.
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Jonathan Billings <[email protected]>
College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support
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