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At least in master right now there is actually code to check if the
kernel is a distro kernel. The apport rule will only file bugs on
distro kernels. That means that kernels from earlier releases and
kernels from PPAs shouldn't trigger the apport rule.
Would that be sufficient to avoid problems?
> There should be a way to tell dkms not to build a module for kernels
> newer than $FOO, or (maybe preferably) at least make the failure
> non-fatal so that the package still installs fine but issues a warning
> that the build failed for some kernel(s).
A dkms variable that contains the last kern
Thanks Mario.
According to the man page we can do something like the following:
ubuntu_804="Ubuntu
8.04"
if [ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ]; then
if [ "$(/usr/bin/lsb_release -sir)" == "${ubuntu_804}" ]; then
OBSOLETE_BY
Ok, I didn't know about that one (neither did Alberto).
The problem is that you can have several kernel versions installed on
your system, and it'd be rather rude to make the new kernel remove the
package which worked fine with the original kernel version.
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There is a way already in dkms.conf to specify which kernels not to
build with. Look at the OBSOLETE_BY directive. I don't see why you
would ever want the package to install though if it's not going to work
with your kernel.
That sounds to me like a core problem that user needs to know about and
