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

[Sébastien Luttringer]

On ven., 2016-02-19 at 08:12 +0100, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net>
> wrote:
> What about when you remove a dkms package? Would be nice to remove the
> build modules as well.
This is done by post install scriplet[1] of each dkms module package (e.g it
calls "dkms remove vhosthost/${1%-*} --all").

Name and version of the dkms modules to remove is not easy to guess in a global
hook. Also note that a dkms module can build several kernel modules.

That's also why registering (dkms add) of the modules is done by install
scriplet.

Only the build/install of registered modules are done by the hook in order to
schedule them properly.

> With these hooks [1] designed for kernel transaction, we will have complete
> support of oot modules in pacman.
> 
I didn't tried them but I don't get how this can works when you install/update
a dkms module. 

Your dkms-install hook is triggered by files installation in /usr/lib/modules,
but dkms packages didn't do that at all. They write these files in
/usr/src/$foo and register the dkms module with dkms add.

Files are copied in /usr/lib/modules when you run "dkms install" (so not under
the watch of alpm), so it make no sense to call dkms install again when file
are here.


[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/nvidia-dkms
.install?h=packages/nvidia


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