upgrading video cards...

Gregory Boyce gboyce-qL0WqcyiFk9Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 22 13:24:27 EST 2008


On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> This is *exactly* what /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ is designed to handle.
> Its present in RHEL, Fedora and Ubuntu, not sure about others.
> Basically, drop a scriptlet in there, and it'll get executed
> post-kernel-install (there's also a corresponding prerm.d). I can't
> remember if akmods wire into this or not, but it was actually Matt
> Domsch over at Dell (where dkms originated) who asked that Fedora and
> RHEL add the /etc/kernel/*.d/ directories and hooks in the kernel
> packages for exactly this sort of thing.

Ah, cool.  Its been a few years since I've compiled my own kernel rather 
than running the vendor provided kernel.





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