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Re: [opensuse-factory] module compilation on kernel change
  • From: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:10:01 +0200
  • Message-id: <1287414601.3352.8.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Le lundi 18 octobre 2010 à 17:04 +0200, Rémy Marquis a écrit :
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le 18/10/2010 14:13, Guido Berhoerster a écrit :

The links under documentation are fine and provide a good
overview. AFAIK it's used by Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Fedora,

and why not by openSUSE?

jdd

Because of KMP and security reasons.
See https://features.opensuse.org/305148

DKMS can also be used to generate binary packages, thus making the need
of a C compiler optional when people want to avoid it.

We were using this dual mode on Mandriva : binary packages, built by
DKMS for some products (where we didn't want gcc installer) and source
based package for other products.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell

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