On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 15:18 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:18:54AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > DKMS installs a script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d which will be called by > > the kernel package installation script. This will rebuild modules as > > necessary. However, packages using DKMS have to opt in to this > > automatic rebuild (AUTOINSTALL=yes), and it seems that virtualbox-ose > > does not. > > What else does the virtuabox-ose package need other than this? > > mich...@feivel:~$ grep AUTOINSTALL /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-3.1.2/dkms.conf > AUTOINSTALL="yes" > > I've seen the same problems coming up several times because dkms couldn't tell > that it had to recompile because the kernel version number didn't change. Are > you sure this is not the reason?
So the problem is that we're changing the ABI without changing the kernel version in utsname (2.6.32-trunk-foo)? Sorry about that - we will start using ABI numbers (and avoiding ABI changes where possible) soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
