Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered
> >> the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than
> >> module-assistant, and I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel
> >> module maintainers adopt it as well.
>
> > How far more convenient is it ? As in it does the same thing as m-a
> > install, but automatically ?
>
> Yup, exactly.
>
> Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI
> changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that you have
> to wait for the compile process during aptitude upgrade, but I'm okay with
> that.
Couldn't that be added as hooks in /etc/kernel-img.conf faily easy (for
m-a, I mean) ?
Mike
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