On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:15:59PM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Sven, > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Ideally, i would build depend on kernel-headers-2.4, and have a option > > that i can pass to debian/rules which would detect what kernel-headers > > package provide this and set the kernel version accordyingly. > > > > Is this a better solution ? > Why not makeing a unicorn-src package, providing the upstream tarball?
Mmm, i hadn't thought about it, but the upstream tarball compiles just fine with just the kernel headers. Is there a good example of such a -src package ? the nvidia-kernel-src maybe ? > Its always a major hassle to compile kernel-binaries (or module-binaries) > for all available platforms/processors. So a source package is the > preferred way to distribute kernel addons. Also, it contains a binary only library (which i can ask to be rebuilt for non-i386 archs if people need it). My idea was that people would do : apt-get source unicorn cd unicorn-0.3.4 edit debian/rules and modify the KERNEL_VERSION variable dpkg-buildpackage ... Would that be that bad ? > > How do other module packages handle this, do someone know at a good such > > package i could use as example ? > The current ALSA packages (apt-cache show alsa-source) are doing it > this way. Ok, i will look at it ... Mmm is there not a smaller example to look at ? I only have a slow modem line. Thanks for your help. Friendly, Sven Luther
