Hi, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 04:55:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Due to bug #517130, linux-modules-extra-2.6 must be removed. > > If you want to continue having modules auto-built, we recommend that you > consider integrating with DKMS. You can trigger a build on installation > or upgrade of the module source. The dkms package then automatically > rebuilds installed module sources when a new kernel version is > installed. > > Why DKMS and not module-assistant? Your packages presumably already > work with m-a, but m-a doesn't automatically rebuild modules on upgrade. > Also, DKMS is supported by other distributions, so many out-of-tree > module sources already include the necessary configuration file. That means the modules will be "auto-built" on users computers? Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... Are there any docs for how to add DKMS support in a Debian package? For people who never touched DKMS before? TIA Evgeni -- Bruce Schneier can read and understand Perl programs.
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