Re: General reply on the Debian ENBD package questions

"Also sprach Bas van Schaik:"
> Currently I'm very busy finishing an academic year as a board-member of
> a study association, as well fixing various problems at the office. In

That can indeed be overwhelming.  I really appreciate your efforts and
the excellent result.  Everything looks to me to compile fine (there's
even a .ko produced, in the debian/enbd directory, though I don't think
it's put in a package aftwerwards).


> students, but I hope I can make some time to finish things off.

Perhaps you can say what needs finishing, and I or somebody else can do
it? For the moment I am publishing the debian/ directory 
in the enbd archive. Make -f debian/rules binary.

> Don't hesitate to make remarks on the work I've done, but don't expect a
> quick fix or a quick answer at the moment. I will read all mail
> concerning enbd, but mark it "unread" until I've got the time to
> carefully take care of all issues found and questions asked.
> I do want to make a quick remark right now: the "enbd-client-modules-*"
> and "enbd-client-source" are already obsoleted, but still exist in the
> package repository. A new "enbd-module-source", which is ready for use
> with the Debian "module-assistant", is considered stable and replaces
> the packages mentioned before.

Hmm ..  sounds mysterious!  It's supposed to put the module source in
the kernel tree, perhaps?  Or in some place where module-assistant can
get to it?  Clues to debian thinking in that matter gratefully received!

I've just downloaded and compiled module-assistant. I suppose I
could figure out what to do with it with a bit of helpful guidance
from people out there!

       module-assistant  is  the  command-line  tool for handling
       module-source packages that have  been  prepared  for  the
       Debian  distribution.  It helps users to build and install
       module package(s) easily for one or more custom kernels.

but the rest of the description is deeply strangely obscure! In partcular
I don't see that it compiles standalone modules.

Peter