Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > 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.
> 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). DKMS does exactly that. Have a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/09/msg00229.html Cheers, Emilio
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