I have no idea if this can/will work out in practice. It's a hack, but I'm not sure if it's a big ugly hack or a nice, neat hack. ;) a. Let every udeb with kernel modules provide virtual packages named after the modules. So if we have the hypothetical package weird-nic-drivers-udeb with modules foo-nic.o and bar-nic.o, it would provide something like k-m-foo-nic and k-m-bar-nic b. Let anna have a non-interactive mode where you can, like apt-get, ask it to install a udeb. anna --install <package> --retriever <foo|bar|default> or something When a package like ethdetect or disk-detect wants to probe for hardware, it will 1. Ask discover for which modules to install, say foo-nic. 2. Ask anna to fetch k-m-foo-nic. This means that weird-nic-drivers-udeb and all its dependencies will be fetched and installed 3. Run depmod -a. 4. modprobe foo-nic. And all is well with the world. ;) So, what did I miss? Will this work or not? If it works, is it feasible? The Provides line can be auto-generated and stuff so that shouldn't be a *big* problem. I guess figuring out which retriever to use will be tricky, but we'll still have the interactive mode for anna too. /Martin
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