[aur-general] Packaging with DKMS support

[Jason Melton]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Florian Pritz
<bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
> On 24.03.2011 08:50, Jason Melton wrote:
>> 2011/3/24 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.

True, but this doesn't take away any of the benefits of DKMS support.