On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 02:24 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
The current apt implementation of the kernel-module handling prints out warnings if you have kernel modules installed which are not available for the new kernel you're about to install by doing some "fun" calculations with provides and versions. Alternatively it could hold back from installing the new kernel until all the modules are available for the new kernel as well.
So, it's possible (at least in the current uname-in-package-name scheme) but fun it is not.
My concern is not with it being fun but with it being:
- confusing to users wanting to install the kernel-module
- fragile
IMHO the minimum requirement is to get the above mentioned warnings. Auto-pulling them in is a nice feature too, and has worked for me with apt almost perfectly thus far.