Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11:07AM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/9/16 Russ Allbery : > > > If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using > > triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. > > I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I attached before

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/16 Russ Allbery : > If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using > triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I attached before, but failed. If run by the kernel package postinst, m-a can't get the loc

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That gets the new kernel installs, but I don't think it gets the >> updates to the kernel module source package. Although I suppose we >> could duplicate that with a postinst call to module-assistant. > Or us

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI > >> changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that y

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI >> changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that you >> have to wait for the compile process during aptitude upgrade, but

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered > >> the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than > >> modu

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered >> the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than >> module-assistant, and I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel >> module m

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > > Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > >> [Hans-J. Ullrich] > > >>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > >>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- mod

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: >> [Hans-J. Ullrich] >>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and >>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? >> Can you give an example? > No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Hans-J. Ullrich] > > > DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > > a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? > > Can you give an example? > Hello Peter! No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the documentati

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hans-J. Ullrich] > DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Can you give an example? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/15 Hans-J. Ullrich : > Hi Luca, > > just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! > This problem I can easy solve with a little shell script. But there are lots > of unexperienced users, which are not able to script themselve. They are just > users. For those p

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 11:57 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : > Well, of course, there is DKMS, but DKMS seems only be made for kernel > modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- > modules? Fortunately there is not too much software with an ABI as badly main

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Luca Niccoli: > Luca > > P.S. > > For the sake of clarity I attached the modified script, it's very short. > I didn't try it though. > Hi Luca, just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! This problem I can easy solve wit

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/14 Hans-J. Ullrich : > 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

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
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