Dkms will allow you to auto compile upon pc restart and kernel upgrade. But then again, Arch don't use dkms and I still quite new to know the history of why not to use dkms.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. kernel updates render package obsolete (Mads Michelsen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:43 +0100 > From: Mads Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [aur-general] kernel updates render package obsolete > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > I'm maintaining the module package fsaa1655g > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8281), a job I took > over as the package had for all intents and purposes been abandoned. > > My problem is that every time the kernel is updated - even the smallest > update - the package becomes obsolete. I'm pretty ignorant of these > things but I suppose that is how things are for some (a lot? all?) > non-kernel-modules. The particular problem with this module is that > my laptop depends on it for wireless access (it turns on the wireless > radio) and so when the kernel is upgraded and the module isn't > immidiately upgraded with it, the laptop is restarted, the result is no > wireless - which can make it hard to get the module upgraded for one > thing. > > So I guess my questions are: > 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each and > every kernel update? and if not > 2) For myself, I can just keep the source code on my drive and rebuild > it whenever this happens - but is there some way of altering the > PKGBUILD to do the same? > 3) Any other way around the issue apart from > quickly updating the package whenever there's a kernel upgrade? > > - Mads > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > aur-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general > > > End of aur-general Digest, Vol 49, Issue 25 > ******************************************* >
