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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:08:41 +0200
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To: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] testing/dahdi-tools depenendency question
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Natanael Copa wrote:
> I wonder if we really need the dahdi-linux dependency for dahdi-tools.
> The problem i think we might get is that the kernel modules are on the
> readonly modloop loopback, not registered in apk database.
> 
> Not sure, but also in a vserver guest enviroment, we will not be able to
> load the kernel modules (must be done by the host) but it might be
> possible to give access to dahdi devices in the guest.
> 
> Other situations might be when users build their own kernel and have the
> dahdi drivers in kernel rather than as modules or have another kernel
> flavore (vanilla kernel, vserver kernel...)
> 
> Point is, we probably dont want to have kernel modules as dependencies
> for the userland tools.
> 
> Also, i wonder if we maybe should rename the dahdi-linux package to
> dahdi-linux-grsec. We might want dahdi modules for other kernel flavors.

It depends a bit. The dahdi-linux package contains the firmwares, there's
a separate package for the kernel modules, that the dahdi-tools does not
depend on. If you figure out a better way to handle the firmwares, please
fix accordingly.

- Timo


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