Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> 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) ?
>
> That gets the new kernel installs, but I don't think it gets the updates
> to the kernel module source package. Although I suppose we could
> duplicate that with a postinst call to module-assistant.
Or using triggers.
> One of the things that I like about DKMS, though, is that it's a
> cross-distribution solution to the problem. It's also used by Fedora, for
> instance. So I was able to copy existing upstream work for Fedora builds
> for the dkms.conf file.
You know, with these kind of arguments alone, we would be using rpm ;)
Mike
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