Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Many non-free drivers (and some free drivers, for that matter) are >> never automatically built at the moment, although with the new >> mechanism for building modules in main, hopefully that number will drop >> over time for the free ones. > Could you please elaborate on this mechanism, or point to an URL? (If > it's been discussed here and I just missed it, I apologize -- I skip > most of -devel these days :-) ) http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-modules-contrib-2.6.html My understanding of the goal is that this package will build-depend on the source packages of all the free external drivers that can support this sort of automated build and then only the linux-modules-contrib maintainers have to deal with the ever-changing exact list of kernel versions for which modules should be built. I don't know how far along this is yet. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]