[pkg-nvidia-devel] nvidia-kernel-modules - one package for building modules for both i386 and amd64

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> I just tried and extended nvidia-kernel-modules-i386 to support building
> modules for both i386 amd amd64 from a single package (the set of
> packages of course depends on the architecture where the build is
> happening).

> I also tried and successfully built the modules for all flavors of
> 2.6.32-4 currently available in unstable - including openvz, vserver,
> xen. I'm not sure whether these modules actually work (e.g. the one for
> xen-686, can't test this since I'm not using any flavor besides amd64
> [amd64]), but if they do, we can close all the
> there-is-no-module-for-my-favorite-xen-kernel bugs.  There were no
> patches needed to get the modules compile for the xen flavors.

> Since there are now 12 flavors in total I really recommend having a
> generatable debian/control - so changing the flavor list is trivial
> since there is no need to care for properly updating debian/control
> manually - especially when there is a flavor with the same name for both
> i386 and amd64 (flavor 'amd64') that requires Architecture: i386 amd64

Yup, I'm convinced.

I've created a new area in the repository for this package and am going to
try a build of it now.  If this works properly, I'll upload it since it
will have to sit in NEW, and hopefully it will be ready to migrate soon
after the new kernel ABI makes it into testing.

Then we just have to tackle the legacy stuff and the other packages....
And of course the version update.

Thank you so much for all your work on this!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>