Hi all, > On Thursday 22 March 2007 14:34, Jean Parpaillon wrote: >> I've commited a draft of a new config.xml schema. >> I tried not to break everything but some things needs changing, in its >> actual >> form, most packages won't build with the new schema. Of course, this is >> a >> draft so it can evolve. >> In the commit is included a sample config.xml as everybody don't speak >> xsd >> fluently :-) >> >> Erich pointed out a functionnality which must be implemented on packages >> which >> concerns kernel related packages. >> The issue is: kernel related packages (drivers, for instance) needs some >> work >> (typically, recompilation) when a new kernel is installed. This could be >> done >> automatically. >> My idea is: s/My idea is/An idea of Ericht Focht I totally agree with/
> > Jean, I have a problem with your wording. You are describing exactly what > I > described in the oscar-core phone meeting two days before and call it your > idea. This is unacceptable for me personally and is a BAD THING to do in > an > open source project. Terribly sorry. I've never wanted to stole your idea. Just writing to quickly... > > I was pushing this since more than one year whenever a kernel dependent > package appeared at the horizon. Only those days there was dissense in the > way > to implement it. Now the rework of config.xml due to the opkg compiler is > an > opportunity to attack the problem again. > > By the way, opkgc is another candidate for this kind of issues. To make it > clear: the opkg compiler (opkgc) is an idea developed by Brian Finley and > myself at the OSCAR conference in St. John's (2006). The design was > presented > by myself at the ORNL OSCAR meeting in January 2007. Luckilly Geoffroy had > xslt/python code he could reuse from his virtualization work which does > similar morphings of files as we need, (and I spent some hours writting the implementation of your idea, operating system does not yet handle well pure ideas) > so we have now an implementation of > the opkc idea based on that code. > > >> such a package contains a 'post-kernel' file which is an executable, >> beside >> post-install, pre-install and other scripts. This exec do the work >> needed >> when kernel is updated on the client. >> There is a command 'update-kernel-modules' which can be launched each >> time a >> kernel is updated. This command launch each registered 'post-kernel' >> file. >> This command can not be launched automatically, because we can not >> re-package >> each kernel packages for every distributions. >> Nevertheless, on some distros, this mechanism already exists so the opkg >> compiler could make the 'post-kernel' script to be registered to the >> right >> tool (the existing update-kernel-module on the distro). >> >> Am I clear ? Does this makes sense ? > > For me it makes sense, of course. After all it was my idea. I was > expecting > from you to describe how you mark in a config.xml file the kernel > dependency. I have an idea too ;-) I don't think we need to put any information about that in the config.xml file as the presence of a 'post-kernel' is enough for opkgc to add in the package the required stuff. > Sure, we can look it up in the schema, but it is more > practical to > give a tiny example, that reaches more people. I've commited a sample config.xml file in the repository. Best regards, Jean > > Best regards, > Erich > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
