On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:24:53 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 20:02 +0200, David Paleino a écrit : > > apt-get is able to determine the architecture he's running on, right? > > Anyways, dkms is a shells script, it could use dpkg-architecture to get the > > right string to append to the package name. And, with the idea I exposed > > before, of those "triggers", that should be feasible (i.e. "mark the package > > linux-headers-$version-`dpkg-architecture | grep blabla` as to be > > installed"). > > > > Am I just saying non-sense things? :( > > Yes. > > You cannot install packages in a triggered script, or in whatever way > that will be determined from within a package itself.
Is there any particular reason for this? I've seen aptitude doing something similar (i.e. running multiple times with a single launch)... am I wrong? > You need to get *all* the requirements through package dependencies so that > it can go in a single APT run. Yes, the run is single, i.e. you just launch "apt-get install linux-image-2.6.26-1-686" and stop. What I meant is apt-get starting kind of a sub-process... Let me clarify the idea: isn't it possible to make a "dkms trigger", that runs on installation of linux-image-*? It should do the following: a) checks if autoinstall is set in dkms configuration; b) if set to yes: 1) start the install of the corresponding linux-headers-* package (a way to programmatically determine the package name of this?); 2) start the compilation of "in-tree" modules; (i.e. modules handled by dkms) c) if set to no: 1) print a message suggesting the installation of the above package; 2) print a message suggesting what to do next From your reply, I understand that b1) wouldn't be possible to achieve. Why? Can't triggers start external programs? Thanks for your help in trying to solve this, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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