Am Mon, den 20.10.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 02:00: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I'm trying to make linux-kernel-di usable for arch!=i386. > > > > I first tried to understand the dependency checking code in > > copy-modules, but it probably needs a degree in rocket-science to > > understand that completely. But as far as I understood it, dependencies > > are only checked based on module-deps which declares dependencies > > between module-udebs. I didn't see any code that checks the actual > > dependencies between the kernel-modules. So I asked myself why all this > > dependency checking code is needed. Isn't it enough to declare these > > dependency information in debian/control? > > Yes, moving all the information to one place is on my list of things to > do, after letting it optionally build against an uninstalled kernel deb > and getting it working with dpkg-cross. I think I've figured out most of > what I want to do to make it support alpha, after I sit down and do the > work for that, adding new arches should be relatively easy. So I should probably just wait until you finished alpha, before working on powerpc. During my efforts to understand what copy-modules does (I think I understand it now :-) ), I added some comments to the script. Can I commit this improved version or are you working on copy-modules at the moment?
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