On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:18:04PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:12:59 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Another issue: with rpm it is OK to have several packages of the same name > > installed on the system. dpkg does not like this. Hence kernel modules > > deb packages have the name $BASE-$KVERS (e.g: lirc-modules-2.6.26-1-686), > > whereas rpm packages of kernel modules tend to encode $KVERS in the > > Version field alone. > > The modules are meant to be handled by dkms, not dpkg. If you need a .deb, it > might be a problem, then. This is a major bug IMHO. It means that at least for i386 dkms-generated debs cannot be put in repositories. Thus you require a build environment on the target host. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
