Excerpts from Frédéric Brière's message of søn mar 15 04:44:26 +0100 2009: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:02:45PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I might be interested in doing a kernel-module.mk snippet for cdbs, > > and suspect more could be automated than just the inclusion of that > > dh call. > > I think there's a slight misunderstanding here. Yes, > dh_installmodules can be used by a *-modules package to install > modules. But it can also be used by regular packages to install stuff > in /etc/modprobe.d, and *that* is the intent of this bug report. > > (Unfortunately, most packages don't appear to use dh_installmodules, > and manually copy stuff instead. Maybe this will change with the > coming modprobe transition[1], which you can just sail through thanks > to debhelper. It certainly wouldn't hurt if CDBS were to help.) > > [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00138.html>
Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying. > As for support for *-modules packages, I did cook up something like > that a long time ago[2]. However, the lukewarm treatment of this bug > report did not inspire me great confidence, so I did not bother seeing > this to the end. > > If you're interested, I'd be glad to pull it back from the moth balls, > bring it up to date, and properly document the damn thing. > > [2] <http://git.fbriere.net/cdbs-kernel-module.git/> That looks nice to me! Was it this bugreport #377390 that turned you off, or some other one? I have no concrete use for such CDBS *-modules-* helper at the moment (and I don't even remember what I was poking with back then), but please do move forward with this! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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