On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:12:59 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Furthermore, m-a is part of the package management system, which is a > good thing. If my repository contains -modules packages, they will bo > automatically upgraded upon a new version of the module. > > Building packages should be the norm. Having many files under /lib that > cannot be tracked by debsums is not something I like. > > [..] > > Another issue: with rpm it is OK to have several packages of the same name > installed on the system. dpkg does not like this. Hence kernel modules > deb packages have the name $BASE-$KVERS (e.g: lirc-modules-2.6.26-1-686), > whereas rpm packages of kernel modules tend to encode $KVERS in the > Version field alone. The modules are meant to be handled by dkms, not dpkg. If you need a .deb, it might be a problem, then. -- . ''`. 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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