Matt Zimmerman wrote: > As usual, the best place to start looking is with an example from someone > else's work. Check out the PCMCIA packages, for instance, which require > kernel sources in order to build. There is a convention for kernel module > packages that build this way, so that when the user builds their custom > kernel, the modules are built along with it.
Use PCMCIA-CS as an example? Uh, um, why didn't I think of that (Doh!)? [ God, know I'm really embarrassed, because our ./configure and Makefile are based on old PCMCIA-CS ones (that I need to modernized sooner or later) ;-P ] > Essentially, you deposit a tarball in /usr/src, and the user is expected to > extract it when they build their kernel, signalling that it should be > included in the build. make-kpkg then runs scripts in the unpacked tree to > build the modules at the appropriate time. Again, I guess I need to get a little more familar with kernel building on Debian from a user/sysadmin standpoint. -- TheBS -- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- "in a situation where you have someone against you ... an ac- cusation ... can lead to time in jail. This fear can be more effective in controlling a group of people than the enforcement of the law as is. -- Joao Miguel Neves on the US DMCA and EU CD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
