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Re: RFH: perle-serial-source / dh_installmodules



Le mercredi 6 décembre 2006 15:20, Patrick Schönfeld a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> previous: i may be wrong with what i will tell you further, as i did not
> build kernel module packages yet.
>
> > Package works fine but after building/installing with m-a, depmod is not
> > run. In fact postinst and postrm are not created by dh_installmodules and
> > I don't understand why.
>
> Well i can't build the binary-modules target. because compilation does
> have a lot of errors, but this might be because of my kernel
> (2.6.16+openvz). Anyways - i had a look at your debian/rules files and
> as far as i know you have to call dh_installdeb, if you want to be those
> snippets that dh_installmodules should create in your postinst/postrm
> script.

I guess it's related to your kernel, because it builds fine against 2.6.17 and 
2.6.18.

> Another note: I don't know much about kernel module building, but if it
> is build in a "normal build environment" such as every other package, it
> does not seem to be wise to use a destdir=/usr/src/linux/.. - because
> normally you don't build debs with *real* root rights, but with fakeroot
> or something which would fail in this case. But again: I may be wrong,
> because i don't have any experience with kernel modules building yet.

Yep, thanks a lot ! I missed dh_installdeb.

> Hopefully i could help you
>
> Best Regards
>
> Patrick Schönfeld

Regards.



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