On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:13:59 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 10:00 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > IMO a solution that install modules manually (i.e. without dpkg) is not > > acceptable. > > Why? I think this is the only sane way to go for drivers that we won’t > ship binary packages for.
That's why I originally proposed the "DKMS way", i.e.: dkms add [..] dkms remove [..] dkms status [..] ... > As long as the .ko files are correctly removed when you remove the > kernel image – which is feasible with a trigger – there is nothing wrong > with it. I believe that most people feel comfortable only with .deb's (this is not Raphael's case, I hope!)... but, well, if that "manual way" is accepted, it might become the "standard way" to do it in Debian one day. M2C, 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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