Le May 11, 2008 10:45:49 am Lennart Sorensen, vous avez écrit : > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:08:32PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > The set of modules can already be updated if someone has the time and > > experience needed to update nvidia-graphics-modules-i386 and company. > > Merging nvidia-graphics-modules-i386 with linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 > > would only complicate or delay more testing transition of nvidia LKM > > packages, like for any LKM. > > There is no merging happening. linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 simply build > depends on nvidia-kernel-source package, and then proceeds to build the > modules for each kernel variant. That is how the linux-modules-*-2.6 > packages work. linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 simply lists nvidia-kernel os > a module package to build. nvidia-kernel-source has to provide the > appropriate Makefile for linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 to work with (which I > just finished writing). Merging source package foo in source package bar means that bar is modified to build foo's binary packages,
> So everytime debian does a new kernel version, they will do a new > linux-modules-*-2.6 package listing the new kernel version, which will > cause all the supported modules to be built. > > If a new nvidia-kernel-source version comes out, then it will get > rebuilt too (quite how that is made to happen I am still not quite sure > of). Yes, the problems with conglomeration packages are the same as you'd get by merging 2 somewhat related source packages together, say iceweasel with icedove. Although the source packages would probably share a bit of code, if there's a libpng transition and only iceweasel is ready, you need to drop icedove, but your only choices are to drop icedove and iceweasel or re-upload with a disabled icedove. Transitions get longer and/or versions are bumped constantly. For example, linux-modules-extra-2.6 was uploaded 7 times to unstable in 2008, while iceweasel was only uploaded 5 times. linux-modules-extra-2.6 only did one Linux ABI transition during that time. If nvidia prebuilt modules are merged in linux-modules-nonfree-2.6, they'll be tied to kqemu prebuilt modules. This would hurt both nvidia LKM-s and kqemu LKM-s, which are already in bad enough shape. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]