9 Jul
2020
9 Jul
'20
9:16 p.m.
On Jul 9, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at
msu.edu> wrote:
This is the first I?ve heard of DKMS and it looks interesting. As far as I can see it?s
really targeted at self-contained
modules which can be built using just the kernel header files and, maybe, some library
files. Unfortunately, DECnet
is part of the standard kernel tree and turning on DECNET_CONFIG enables some code in the
core networking code
and changes the layout of some data structures which are used throughout the kernel. Like
most of the networking code it is tightly integrated into the kernel. So, in order to
update the DECnet I code I have to download the kernel source, make some changes and
rebuild the kernel+modules. Now there?s nothing for DKMS to do.
John.
To simplify installation, I?ve written a shell
script
(BuildAndInstall.sh) to perform most of the work.
To my mind, DKMS would be the ideal way to "package" this stuff. Nearly
anything homebrew is going to have un-noticed distro- or hardware
platform-specific dependencies.
De