Re: pcmcia-modules in woody

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Mays wrote:

> > BTW: It's _extremely_ ugly to build these binary pacakges in a way that a
> >      "dpkg-buildpackage -B" doesn't rebuild them all.
>...
> The only way to automate this further is to *force* the kernel-image
> packages to build the corresponding pcmcia-modules packages, since
> they contain everything needed to do so.  All that is required is an
> additional build-dependency on the pcmcia-source package, which can
> be unpacked (in a similar way that many of these packages unpack the
> kernel source from a binary kernel-source package) and the appropriate
> instructions given to make this source build the pcmcia-modules package,
> probably using "make-kpkg".  In fact, I think that a couple of the
> kernel-image package have already been set up to do this.
>...

This is IMHO a good solution.

> - Brian

cu
Adrian