On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:52:39 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:43:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 19:23 +0200, David Paleino a écrit : > > > > One of the issues I’m wondering about is: how do you ensure you always > > > > have the kernel headers for the installed kernels? > > > > > > Some kind of check inside DKMS? In the end, that's a Bash script, and the > > > Debian maintainer (i.e. me, in this case) could just maintain a patch for > > > this (or just issue a warning at the kernel post-inst hook looking like > > > "Hey, if you do not install linux-headers-foo, you won't be able to use > > > these modules: foo bar baz buz"). > > > > Yes, and if dkps depends on linux-headers-2.6-$subarch, that will do the > > trick at least for the default kernel. (Depending on just > > linux-headers-2.6 is not enough, since linux-headers-2.6.xx-y-$subarch > > provides it). > > I think you meant: > > depend on linux-headers-2.6.26-1-all > > There is no linux-headers-2.6-all-latest Well, that could always be added as a package... > And even that means tying a nice and little package to a specific kernel > version, which is probably not such a nice idea. You do that with m-a, and you have to rebuild modules manually at every kernel change. > Especially not for those who build their own kernel. Could you please elaborate on this? Why would that be different? > For i386 the situation is particualrily bad, as the -all will pull a > hosts of other packages. Sure, but who said to get -all? apt-get is able to determine the architecture he's running on, right? Anyways, dkms is a shells script, it could use dpkg-architecture to get the right string to append to the package name. And, with the idea I exposed before, of those "triggers", that should be feasible (i.e. "mark the package linux-headers-$version-`dpkg-architecture | grep blabla` as to be installed"). Am I just saying non-sense things? :( Regards, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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