Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11:07AM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote: 2009/9/16 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/14 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de: Problem: Whenever I upgrade to a new kernelversion, or there are new versions of kernel-modules or other packages, which are only available in source-code, it is necessary to build the new versions manually. This is rather annoying and it might

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Luca Niccoli: Luca P.S. For the sake of clarity I attached the modified script, it's very short. I didn't try it though. Hi Luca, just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! This problem I can easy solve with a

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 11:57 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : Well, of course, there is DKMS, but DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Fortunately there is not too much software with an ABI as badly

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/15 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de: Hi Luca, just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! This problem I can easy solve with a little shell script. But there are lots of unexperienced users, which are not able to script themselve. They are just

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hans-J. Ullrich] DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Can you give an example? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Hans-J. Ullrich] DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Can you give an example? Hello Peter! No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the documentation and

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Hans-J. Ullrich] DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Can you give an example? No, sorry, I cannot. I looked

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Hans-J. Ullrich] DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel-

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than module-assistant, and I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that you have to wait for the compile process during aptitude

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI changes, a new module is automatically built. It does

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: That gets the new kernel installs, but I don't think it gets the updates to the kernel module source package. Although I suppose we could duplicate that with a postinst call to

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/16 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I attached before, but failed. If run by the kernel package postinst, m-a

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear developers, I would like to suggest a new idea, which might improve the system. Problem: Whenever I upgrade to a new kernelversion, or there are new versions of kernel-modules or other packages, which are only available in source-code, it is necessary to