kernel module packages

raymano · 2008-01-15 10:56:08

Is there a way to get a list of all kernel module packages in all repos?

I have created a custom kernel package and would like to create all corresponding kernel module packages (such as nvidia) for this custom kernel as well.

Thanks,
Raymano

byte · 2008-01-16 02:15:16

Not really, but you could use something like this:

find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD | xargs grep "depends=.*kernel26"
find /var/abs/ -name '*.install' | xargs grep depmod

raymano · 2008-01-16 03:38:04

Thank you very much. That'll give me what I need.

I wish archlinux had a naming convention for such packages to make them simpler to distinguish without the need to get the entire abs tree to find them. Such as:

kernelmodule-ipw3945
kernelmodule-nvidia

Or for the mm kernel:

kernelmodule-ipw3945-mm
kernelmodule-nvidia-mm

Last edited by raymano (2008-01-16 03:41:38)

brebs · 2008-01-16 04:51:47

Not needed - the number of kernel modules supplied by packages *should* be so low that they can be easily tracked "manually" (i.e. within a custom recompilation script).

Just compile a new kernel version, then see what kernel modules are missing.

raymano · 2008-01-16 05:53:38

How can you tell if something is missing when you don't know what you are looking for?

brebs · 2008-01-16 06:19:59

It's obvious what to look for - a "kernel module not found" error message. Programs not working.

raymano · 2008-01-16 06:51:01

That's all fine and dandy if you are doing it for one system but not when you are building a distribution that will run on hardware you don't know anything about.

http://www.faunos.com

Things aren't always as obvious as they might seem.

Last edited by raymano (2008-01-16 06:52:45)

brebs · 2008-01-16 07:08:37

That argument doesn't make much sense. If you don't know anything about the hardware, how are you supposed to *test* your packages?

raymano · 2008-01-16 07:12:25

Ok.

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