On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:32:07 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:18:04PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:12:59 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > Another issue: with rpm it is OK to have several packages of the same name > > > installed on the system. dpkg does not like this. Hence kernel modules > > > deb packages have the name $BASE-$KVERS (e.g: lirc-modules-2.6.26-1-686), > > > whereas rpm packages of kernel modules tend to encode $KVERS in the > > > Version field alone. > > > > The modules are meant to be handled by dkms, not dpkg. If you need a .deb, > > it might be a problem, then. > > This is a major bug IMHO. It means that at least for i386 dkms-generated > debs cannot be put in repositories. Thus you require a build environment > on the target host.
We're not talking about *distributing* dkms-generated debs. We're talking about letting users download a tarball from $vendor and use it happily within Debian, like he would do in Ubuntu/Mandriva/Fedora/... -- i.e. integrate the DKMS framework inside Debian. Regards, 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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