[Pkg-dkms-maint] dkms 2.0.21.1-1

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 00:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 00:35 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings ha scritto:
> > 
> > > flavours of the current default kernel version.  Until then, I think the
> > > recommendation should be:
> > > 
> > >     linux-headers-2.6-686 [i386] | linux-headers-2.6-amd64 [amd64] | linux-headers
> > > 
> > > and in Ubuntu:
> > > 
> > >     linux-headers-generic [i386, amd64] | linux-headers
> > > 
> > > which should DTRT for the majority of users.
> > 
> > What about to use:
> > 
> > linux-headers-2.6-686 [i386] | linux-headers-2.6-amd64 [amd64] \
> > | linux-headers-generic [i386, amd64] | linux-headers
> > 
> > This will reduce delta between Ubuntu and Debian.
> 
> Yes, I suppose that's harmless.

I'm sorry, but my suggestion doesn't actually work.  The recommendations
are filtered by dpkg-gencontrol, even for "Architecture: all" packages,
based on the nominal target architecture (the build host's
architecture).  I think the best thing to do may be to remove all the
architecture qualifications:

    linux-headers-2.6-686 | linux-headers-2.6-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers

One last thing: the postinst does:

    update-rc.d -f dkms_autoinstaller remove >/dev/null 2>&1

If this command fails then installation will fail.  In that case the
user needs to see its error messages, so they must not be sent to
/dev/null.  If there's some reason why update-rc.d may fail and this
should not be fatal then add "|| true" to the command; otherwise remove
the "2>&1".

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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