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mouseman

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Registered: 2014-04-04

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[Answered] Pacman & DKMS

The wiki states that:

The negative effect of using DKMS is that DKMS breaks the Pacman database. The problem is that the resulting modules do not belong to the package anymore, so Pacman cannot track them. Theoretically though, support could be added through hooks (see: FS#2985).

I just noticed that bug has been closed with reason: fixed.

Does that mean that the quote from the wiki above is no longer valid, and modules upgraded through DKMS are no longer orphaned?

Last edited by mouseman (2016-01-11 18:16:27)

Scimmia

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Re: [Answered] Pacman & DKMS

No. It means that hook support has been added and will be released as part of pacman 5.0. At that point, someone has to make a hook to make this work.

mouseman

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Re: [Answered] Pacman & DKMS

Cool, thanks for clarifying.

Still good news!