On 24.03.2011 08:50, Jason Melton wrote: > 2011/3/24 Ng Oon-Ee <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:16 +0900, Jason Melton wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Over on the rtl8192se package[1], we have been discussing how to best >>> support DKMS in packaging (at the AUR level), and I would like to ask >>> for wider and more experienced comments. I have put my thoughts here >>> and in more detail on my personal Arch wiki page[2]. >> >> Quick problem, what happens when the kernel version updates? For example >> modules are currently in /lib/modules/2.6.38-Arch/kernel/* (from >> [testing]) but when 2.6.39 comes out the location changes, and the >> package needs to be reinstalled in any case. >> > A drawback is that, in this case DKMS will create a file that is no > longer tracked by pacman. But, since an updated package must be > released soon anyway for the non-DKMS users, this situation will not > last long. An alternative would be updating the information in the > pacman db, but that's really pushing things I think.
Packages that contain kernel modules should contain something like
depends=(kernel26>=2.6.37 kernel26<2.6.38) so unless you use -d or there
is an updated version of the package you shouldn't be able to update the
kernel.
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Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
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