[oe] [RFC] Rebuild external kernel modules on kernel change

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 22:52 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 01-06-09 22:17, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > In an ideal world, you'd even be able to generate a single ABI 
> > footprint by, say, taking a sha256 hash of the catenation of all 
> > the symbol versions.  Then, your kernel package could
> > Provide: kernel-abi-123456abc, all your module packages could Depend: on
> > the same thing, and (modulo a little bit of package manager tweaking
> > along roughly the same lines as we use for locales) everything would
> > "just work".
> 
> only if you use {o,i}pkg, which isn't good enough.

Indeed, in that respect this isn't an ideal world.  The other things
that I wrote in that same email are still applicable, though.

p.