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Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion



On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:16:45AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> (Your use of the term "udeb kernels" is confusing and innaccurate. d-i
> does not use different kernels than anything else.)

Indeed, point taken. To clarify: I meant the udeb packages 
kernel-image-$KVERS-di.

> Max Vozeler wrote:
> >   2. The information about flavours used in udeb kernels is not
> >   available in linux-headers. For normal flavours waldi's build
> >   infrastructure (and my homebrewn scripts) use the information in
> >   /usr/src/linux-headers-$VERSION/arch/ to look up availablea
> >   flavours. Information about udeb flavours cannot be looked up in
> >   the same way. So at the moment I maintain a list of udeb flavours
> >   by hand and watch d-i commits to notice changes [0]. 

> No idea what you're talking about here

Let me try again: In order to build module packages for Debian
kernel packages and the repackaged -di kernel packages, I need to
know at build-time which flavours my package should try to build
for so that I can generate debian/control accordingly. This
information is available in the configs included in the arch/
directory of linux-headers packages. -di kernel packages, however,
use only a subset of these flavours. My question is: How can I
determine the subset of flavours that are used in -di packages 
and that it makes sense to build module udebs for? 

> and your footnote is dangling.

[0] This is what I ended up doing in the source package
loop-aes-modules. I hope to replace the scripts with waldi's 
infrastructure as soon as I manage to solve this point.

cheers,
Max



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