newbie questions

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Tue Dec 18 08:42:40 CST 2007


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:24:02AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 07:33 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  And ideally, you would use the same directory and arguments as
> > the Ubuntu kernel package uses, so scripts can work on either.
> > 
> > /etc/kernel/postinst.d
> > /etc/kernel/prerm.d
> > /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d
> 
> Well, I'm submitting an internal patch proposal that will add:
> 
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d
> /etc/kernel/prerm.d
> 
> And I've wired these into %posttrans and %pre, respectively. I don't
> have a plan to do anything with header_postinst.d right now.

Cool.  %posttrans should be just fine.  If multiple kernels are
installed in the same transaction, DKMS will get invoked multiple
times, but that's in fact exactly what we want. :-)

I think I'm going to like this.  Thanks for following up on it.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux



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