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This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.
FS#72222 - Function request for fixing severe problem related to pkgbuild of kernel and its modules.
Attached to Project:
Pacman
Opened by Evan Greenup (evgrup) - Friday, 24 September 2021, 04:13 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 24 September 2021, 09:57 GMT
Opened by Evan Greenup (evgrup) - Friday, 24 September 2021, 04:13 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 24 September 2021, 09:57 GMT
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DetailsSummary and Info:
Sometimes kernel update but modules doesn't. It would cause severe functional failure to the system. It would be nice to add some features in makepkg, which can automatically conduct revision update to kernel module whenever there is version update to kernel. automatically build kernel module and sign and upload to mirrors. version update of kernel modules (to exists kernel) should be signed by specified kernel modules maintainer for each kernel module. But all the kernel version update should be signed by linux kernel package maintainer. This can efficiently resolve the problem of kernel and kernel module consistency issue. This issue is the root reason why the archlinux might not able to be boot after update. |
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Because archlinux provide pre-build kernel module, but due to this issue, the kernel module package sometimes inconsistent with kernel.
Not all the kernel packages are installed explicitly by user, some kernel modules are installed as dependencies, so dkms version may not installed as default.
It would make archlinux perfect if the pre-build kernel module is always consistent with kernel.
In order to achieve that, add some feature in makepkg for maintainer would make this solution more efficient.
otherwise, keep all kernel module in perfect status.
If none of above condition, then it would be a disadvantage of archlinux.