Is RPMfusion on strike?

gilpel at altern.org gilpel at altern.org
Sat Aug 22 01:51:25 UTC 2009


Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> The Fedora kernel RPM even has DKMS hooks that trigger a module rebuild
when it is updated.

Nice!

>  You don't have to worry about having a corresponding RPM to match the
kernel. This means no additional RPMs are built or required when you
update the Fedora kernel package.

Nicer!

Later on:

> Your nVidia RPM needs to be tailored for DKMS use.

Oops! So you do need additional RPMs and RPMfusion doesn't provide them.
Which kinda seem to close the case.

> The RPM Fusion folks prefer the kmod package system.

Given my expertise on the matter, I'm afraid giving an opinion wouldn't
help you much.




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