[aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 49, Issue 25

[Abdul Halim]

Dkms will allow you to auto compile upon pc restart and kernel upgrade.
But then again, Arch don't use dkms and I still quite new to know the history
of why not to use dkms.


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:00 AM,  <aur-general-request at archlinux.org> wrote:
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>   1. kernel updates render package obsolete (Mads Michelsen)
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> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:43 +0100
> From: Mads Michelsen <chochem at gmail.com>
> Subject: [aur-general] kernel updates render package obsolete
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> I'm maintaining the module package fsaa1655g
> (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8281), a job I took
> over as the package had for all intents and purposes been abandoned.
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> My problem is that every time the kernel is updated - even the smallest
> update - the package becomes obsolete. I'm pretty ignorant of these
> things but I suppose that is how things are for some (a lot? all?)
> non-kernel-modules.  The particular problem with this module is that
> my laptop depends on it for wireless access (it turns on the wireless
> radio) and so when the kernel is upgraded and the module isn't
> immidiately upgraded with it, the laptop is restarted, the result is no
> wireless - which can make it hard to get the module upgraded for one
> thing.
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> So I guess my questions are:
> 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each and
> every kernel update? and if not
> 2) For myself, I can just keep the source code on my drive and rebuild
> it  whenever this happens -  but is there some way of altering the
> PKGBUILD to do the same?
> 3) Any other way around the issue apart from
> quickly updating the package whenever there's a kernel upgrade?
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> - Mads
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