Re: Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 17. Oktober 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: > If you want to continue having modules auto-built, we recommend that you > consider integrating with DKMS. You can trigger a build on installation > or upgrade of the module source. The dkms package then automatically > rebuilds installed

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Hutchings schrieb: > On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 23:29 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > [...] It is also not a good idea to switch to dkms, now where nothing is decided or it may end like with ia32-apt-get with many wasted developer ressour

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 23:29 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: [...] > >> It is also not a good idea to switch to dkms, now where nothing is > >> decided or it may end like with ia32-apt-get with many wasted developer > >> ressources. > > > > What do you mean, 'nothing is decided'. The kernel team mad

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Hutchings schrieb: > On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 19:47 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ben Hutchings schrieb: Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... >>> Building obsc

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 19:47 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ben Hutchings schrieb: > >> Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... > > > > Building obscure modules for every kernel flavour on Debian's own > > auto-builders

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:47:09 +0200 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ben Hutchings schrieb: > >> Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... > > > > Building obscure modules for every kernel flavour on Debian's own > > auto-builders

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Hutchings schrieb: >> Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great... > > Building obscure modules for every kernel flavour on Debian's own > auto-builders is also a waste, especially when just one broken module > breaks the whol

Re: Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 18:32 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 04:55:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Due to bug #517130, linux-modules-extra-2.6 must be removed. > > > > If you want to continue having modules auto-built, we recommend that you > > consider integratin

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Hutchings schrieb: > Due to bug #517130, linux-modules-extra-2.6 must be removed. > linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 does not suffer the same licence compliance > issue, but it is extremely fragile since proprietary drivers are often > not updated for new

Re: Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 04:55:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Due to bug #517130, linux-modules-extra-2.6 must be removed. > > If you want to continue having modules auto-built, we recommend that you > consider integrating with DKMS. You can trigger a build on installation > or upgrade of

Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

2009-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Due to bug #517130, linux-modules-extra-2.6 must be removed. linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 does not suffer the same licence compliance issue, but it is extremely fragile since proprietary drivers are often not updated for new kernel versions. The kernel team will shortly be requesting its removal as w