[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Kernel image and OOT auto builder environment (Was: Using out of tree modules in d-i)?

[Aron Xu]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Aron Xu wrote:
>
>>>> What I can think of is to do the trick in d-i, since it already has
>>>> the ability to retrieve and load udeb on the fly, and even prompt
>>>> users for missing firmware.
>>>
>>> Maybe even build them using dkms? I saw that you can make d-i build
>>> all packages... So adding a extra hook or something that sees that this
>>> is a OOT module, then get it's dkms package, build (to a .deb/.udeb
>>> which I have patches sent upstream for) it and use that...
>>
>> It could be possible, but I don't think building it is acceptable,
>> because it means you must pull in everything of build-essential to the
>> d-i image, which is useless for most other people when they run d-i.
>
> Ah, ok then I think I know what you mean. I thought you meant when the
> d-i image is built...
>
> But how does this help keeping 'the current kernel' and the OOT's up-to-date?
>
> From what I think I understand of you proposal, the user. Which means we
> can't offer 'whatever-support-the-OOT-provides' globally in our install
> images. It would be up to the user to make sure that this is available.
>
>
> I was kind'a hoping we could do this as an organization and provide this
> for our users, instead of putting it to them to make it available for
> themselves.

Now I understand what you mean, just use DKMS to build OOT modules at
image generation time? Seems to be a good idea.



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Regards,
Aron Xu