| Summary: | dkms is way outdated | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Oden Eriksson <oe> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Thomas Backlund <tmb> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | heninj |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/dkms-2.2.0.3.tar.gz | ||
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| Source RPM: | dkms | CVE: | |
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Description
Oden Eriksson
2013-02-20 11:28:17 CET
(In reply to comment #0) > The dkms version in Mageia has not been updated since 2008. New dkms aware > softwares requires the latest version from Dell, currently v2.2.0.3. > What software would that be ?? > I realize there are many Mandriva/Mageia patches applied that has to be > revisited, ported or dropped and this needs a steady hand and a lot of > patience. Yep. wich is why no-one has really taken time to do it... :/ And since it still works in mga, it has not been considered critical... (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > The dkms version in Mageia has not been updated since 2008. New dkms aware > > softwares requires the latest version from Dell, currently v2.2.0.3. > > > > What software would that be ?? Researching ZFS to linux: http://zfsonlinux.org/ And for example http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/downloads/zfsonlinux/spl/spl-0.6.0-rc14.tar.gz won't build. WIP: http://n1.nux.se/work/spl-0.6.0-0.0.rc14.1.mga2.src.rpm > > > I realize there are many Mandriva/Mageia patches applied that has to be > > revisited, ported or dropped and this needs a steady hand and a lot of > > patience. > > Yep. > wich is why no-one has really taken time to do it... :/ > > And since it still works in mga, it has not been considered critical... I've run into issues with this trying to install bbswitch on a dual graphics controller machine. Just to give another example... CC:
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heninj Unfixed for years, closing as WONTFIX. Status:
NEW =>
RESOLVED |