Dear developers, I would like to suggest a new idea, which might improve the system.
Problem: Whenever I upgrade to a new kernelversion, or there are new versions of kernel-modules or other packages, which are only available in source-code, it is necessary to build the new versions manually. This is rather annoying and it might be a problem for not experienced users. So I though about a comfortable solution. my ideas: 1. add a file, which contents all the packages, which should be build when either a new package version is installed. This could be done with a script, maybe by involving m-a a-i. In this file the administrator of the system has to name all those source-packages, he wants to be built at upgrade. 2. The mentionened file can be maintained during upgrades (for example, when a new source-file shall be addded). In this case the installer (preinst??) might ask: Do you want to automatically built this package at newer versions? Yes/No. If Yes, its name will be added into the file, and the package will be built. This can be checked for all packages containing "-source" in its name. 3. Another solution might be a standalone script, which must be called by root (or run with root privileges), calling all source packages named in a file (or conf, whatever), using m-a a-i. Maybe there are other solutions, which might work better. My background thoughts are to make debian as easy as possible. On the othr hand, an automatically building of kernel-modules (like Nvidia-kernel-source, virtualbox, madwifi-ng and other system important things) will let the system run even on automatically upgrades (i.e. by using cron-apt, or anacron on notebooks). Security: To pretend from missusing such an automatismn, the file, which is naming the source-packages should be read/write-only by root, of course. Thank you for reading this. I am looking forward to your feedback! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
