* Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@(protected)]:
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> Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
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> > I think installing -latest by default is enough, if it is missing the user
> > must have removed it.
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> Nope, I never had it - it was a Powerpack installation with the
> pre-packaged binary nVidiadrivers that do not need the -devel package.

I mean the installer will install the -latest kernel package these days, so
the user gets kernel updates. Then, if after install, the user doesn't have
the -latest anymore, it must be the case that he willfully decided to remove
that package, to avoid automatic kernel upgrades or whatever.

Anyway, since you were using the binary DKMSs, you don't need -devel
packages.


> On my laptop where I was compiling something (I think it was madwifi),
> the update went OK, because I had kernel-source installed.

IIRC, it was explained to me sometime ago that the DKMS are meant to work
with kernel-devel packages, not kernel-source.


> >> kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-devel-latest?
> >
> > dkms suggests kernel-devel-latest, shouldn't it be enough?
>
> No, it doesn't look like.

Well, it suggests that in Cooker, and after 2008.1 updates, so if you
installed the old dkms then updated (2008.1), it probably didn't help you
anyway.