[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#741399: dkms: consider avoiding unnecessary rpm commands

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Wed Apr 27 05:47:13 UTC 2016


[Mike Miller]
> A patch to dkms [1] was posted to Ubuntu bug #1069350 [2] that is reported
> there to fix this behavior.

While I agree that we should avoid calling rpm, I believe we would be better
of by doing it in a way that could get accepted upstream.  Any idea how to
modify the patch to work also on rpm based systems?

Perhaps look for /etc/debian_version and only use rpm if it is missing?
Other ideas?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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