upgrading video cards...

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>:

> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 13:24 -0500, Gregory Boyce wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Huh?
>
> This is *for* vendor-provided kernels. In the Fedora case, the kernel
> rpm's %post section scours /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ for scripts to run,
> such as "rebuild the dkms-ified driver for my wacky device that doesn't
> have in-tree support". I believe this part is done just before initrd
> generation, so that such things can also be included in the initrd, if
> need be.

How does it make sure that the kernel-devel package is installed prior
to this?   The kernel package doesn't depend on the -devel package.

-derek

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