[aur-general] kernel updates render package obsolete

[Mads Michelsen]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:21:00 +0100
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Mads Michelsen schrieb:
> > 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 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each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
> 
> You only have to rebuild with major updates (which happen every 3
> months).
> 
> > 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?
> 
> All you can do is prevent anyone from accidently updating:
> 
> depends=('kernel26>=2.6.27' 'kernel26<2.6.28')
> 
> Once a major update occurs, pacman will refuse to update the kernel26 
> package unless you -Ud a newer one (with correct depends) first.
> 

Thanks for the replies. I just had the opportunity to test it with
2.6.27.6-1 and the old module still works, like Aaron said - where
I thought I'd noticed previous minor upgrades reject it (strange...) -
so that's some comfort.

I'll use Thomas' suggestions of
depends=('kernel26>=2.6.27' 'kernel26<2.6.28')
- I think I preivously tried kernel26=2.6.27 but I believe that was
  interpreted very literally.