Re: [PATCH] scripts/package/builddeb: upgrade to current practices

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2012/7/18 maximilian attems <max@stro.at>:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:19:25AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> 2012/7/18 maximilian attems <max@stro.at>:
>> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:46:23PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> >> 2012/7/17 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>  Package: $fwpackagename
>> >> >>  Architecture: all
>> >> >> +Conflicts: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >> >> +Provides: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >> >> +Replaces: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >> >
>> >> > I assume you mean Breaks+Replaces.  Do the files actually overlap,
>> >> > or is this change being overly cautious?  I would expect the files
>> >> > not to overlap because the package build with deb-pkg puts firmware
>> >> > in a versioned subdirectory "/lib/firmware/<version>".
>> >>
>> >> AFAIK they would overlap, hence the Conflicts.
>> >
>> > This is wrong and properly fixed in -next.
>>
>> Exactly what is wrong with this fix? Could you tell us exactly what
>> you did differently and why?
>
> Jonathan already answered it, saying that firmwares are put
> in versioned dir.

Does the kernel look for modules in versioned, then non-versioned
directories, in that order? More importantly, does it even attempt
looking in the versioned directory at all?

Martin-Éric