Bug#556595: Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#556595: virtualbox-ose-source: missing dependency on kbuild

2009-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:23:10AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: No, kbuild is already suggested, but because there are other ways to build the package I see no reason to depend on kbuild. The preferred way of building a module nowadays is dkms which does not need kbuild for virtualbox-ose. Why

Bug#556595: Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#556595: virtualbox-ose-source: missing dependency on kbuild

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:46:56AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Why is dkms the preferred way? It integrates the modules into the system I'd say because it's the only way to provide modules without manual intervention. Please keep in mind that linux-modules-extra has been/will be removed from