Bug#179000: Handling kernel modules of different kernel versions in anna & d-i
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:39:53PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> m?n 2003-03-24 klockan 10.48 skrev Herbert Xu:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > >
> > > It's harder to parse. I don't want anna to screw up because someone
> > > named their udeb a bit weird. The pattern for kernel module udebs so far
> > > seem to be on the form *-modules-*.*.*-*-udeb which is a bit too unclear
> > > for my taste :/
> >
> > This seems pretty simple to me. Find "-modules-" in the string,
> > and then keep going until you see "-udeb" at the end.
>
> The parsing was the least concern. Bad explanations on my part, I'm
> worried about false negatives and false positives. Most udebs end in
> "-udeb" so that's far from conclusive. And I can imagine udebs with
> "-modules-" in the name, even if we have none now. I guess we should
> cross-run the info in the name with the version of the udeb to be on the
> safe side.
>
> I have, however implemented the first step (parsing the package name)
> and the CVS version seems to work fine.
Why not check if the module package depends on the kernel-image
package corresponding to the kernel in use?
Matt
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