On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Bill Johnstone <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello all. > > I'm a novice at building Debian packages, but following the New > Maintainers' Guide, I've been able to successfully use dh_make, quilt, and > dpkg-buildpackage to make proper packages. > > I now need to build some out-of-tree kernel modules, and would really like > to make the associated packages work with DKMS. However, I'm completely > unclear on how to use dh_dkms. Using dh_make's kernel module option does > not seem to be leading me down the right path. > > Is there a suitable introduction or guide of any sort on how to use > debhelper and dh_dkms to build a dkms package? Would anyone be willing to > help me get started in doing so? > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > Hi, I'm also interested in learning how to build packages of kernel modules with dkms support, but the New Maintainers' Guide doesn't cover this at all, and I can't seem to find any info regarding this in any other official Debian documentation. However, I have found a fairly detailed guide elsewhere that explains how to do so [1]; hopefully it'll be of use for you. - Vincent [1] http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/Ubuntu/Kernel/BuildDebianDKMSPackages#DebhelperDh_makeMethod
