Archive for November 19th, 2008

Execute module-assistant into pbuilder

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Like promised, this post doesn’t start with rivendell ;-)

The first objective was testing the module source packages provided with Rivendell. Between etch and intrepid, these modules can be built on several kernel versions (from 2.6.18 to 2.6.27) and waiting errors on the rivendell user mailing-list doesn”t seem a good solution :-)

So, I looked for a way to execute module assistant into pbuilder. pbuilder has a command “execute” which takes a script, copy and execute it into the chroot. execute-module-assistant was borned.

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