[arch-dev-public] out of tree modules and alpm-hooks

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I pushed into community-testing a new version of dkms, with an alpm hook to
> build oot modules at install time, instead of at startup time with the
> systemd
> service.
>
> The hooks is very simple; it build and install dkms registered modules for
> all
> installed kernel version when a package ending by -dkms is installed or
> updated.
>
> So, installing or updating a *-dkms package (e.g virtualbox-host-dkms or
> nvidia-340xx-dkms) build and install the shipped modules and allow to use
> it
> like the binary package (e.g modprobe nvidia).
>
> As a consequence, loading of oot modules at boot are back to modules-load.d
> logic.
>
> If everything works correctly, we could get ride of pre-compiled oot
> modules
> packages (e.g virtualbox-host-modules) for linux and linux-lts and offer a
> unique approach for all kernels (arch, lts, zen, grsec).
>
> Do you think we should define a better way to match package which should
> trigger dkms rebuild? I firstly thought to use a provides=('DKMS_MODULE'),
> but
> alpm hooks don't match provides.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
> https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42
> GPG: 0x2072D77A
>
>
What about when you remove a dkms package? Would be nice to remove the
build modules as well.
With these hooks [1] designed for kernel transaction, we will have complete
support of oot modules in pacman.

[1] https://github.com/andrewgregory/pachooks/pull/4

Cheers,
--
Maxime