Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am packaging unicorn : > > unicorn - Kernel modules for the Bewan ADSL PCI st modem > > The upstream source come with a make file enabling to build it from only > the kernel-headers, without there really being a need for the > kernel-sources (in particular, it is a standalone tarball, not a patch > to be used with kernel-package, and as thus, i don't use the dh_make > kernel module option, but am doing a single binary package). > > Ok, now to my actual question : > > I have to build depend on kernel-headers, and the resulting binary does > depend on the corresponding kernel-image. ... > How do other module packages handle this, do someone know at a good such > package i could use as example ?
The standard way to do this seems to be to have your module source package's 'debian/rules binary' target build a tarball of itself in debian/tmp/usr/src, such that installing the package creates /usr/src/unicorn.tar.gz. Unpacking that will create modules/unicorn, which should be a well-formed Debian source package, and running 'debian/rules kdist-image' there will go off and build the module. /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules describes the kernel-package interface to module building; the user will need to run 'make-kpkg modules-image' after having unpacked /usr/src/unicorn.tar.gz and building their kernel. My understanding is that the kernel-headers packages are mostly useless, since they don't include details specific to the kernel build that you need to build modules. <plug>i2c is a simple source package that uses the "tar yourself up and go" scheme; lm-sensors also has a user-space component. I don't necessarily claim that either is "good", but they both work for common cases using kernel-package.</plug> (linux-wlan-ng uses a different packaging scheme: the user needs to manually run 'apt-get source' in /usr/src/modules. This isn't necessarily bad, just different.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
