On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 10:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/11 14:22, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 06:17 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> > >> Do you think that dkms should drop its /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms > >> script? AFAICS this script might be called before the headers are > >> installed. > > > > It presumably should not rebuild modules unless both the image and > > header packages are installed. Depending on the order those packages > > are installed, either hook may trigger this. Also, it may be useful to > > warn the user when only the image package is upgraded. > > > > Doesn't this mean that the modules are built twice? No. > I don't see that the kernel itself would be necessary to build a kernel > module. It isn't. However it is perhaps useful for dkms to warn you that your OOT module will not be available for the new kernel. [...] > Of course I understand that this is highly complex. Maybe it would help to > introduce some scheme to register event handlers to run after the installation > of all packages has been completed? [...] We had an extensive discussion defining a policy for the kernel and initramfs builder hooks only last year. It's a little late to comment now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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