On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:26:55PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > > > >Why can't you add them to the kernel module's build-depends? I recall the > >debian/control file was > >shared and autogenerated or something, but nothing stops you from changing > >that. > > the build-dependency *is* there (since incorporating your other suggestions), > but it doesn't do any good: as the kernel building process runs > debian/rules directly, there's nobody to actually look at the build-depends > in the control file. > > even if somebody manually ran apt-get build-dep > tun-module-${kpkg:Kernel-Version}, apt-get wouldn't know where to look for > the build-dep info because > the archives don't know about this locally built tun-module-thingie...
Ah, I understand. > dpkg-buildpackage -D/dpkg-checkbuilddeps would at least flag a problem. > hmm, should I add that to the configure target of the module package? Sounds like a good idea. -- .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) : :' : `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]