On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:24 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > pardon me for intruding on the maintenance mailing list, but I didn't > find any user-level medium for asking Debian- and DKMS-related > questions. > > I am traditionally building my own kernels from vanilla sources. I do > so on a dedicated server system, and I have recently migrated from > make-kpkg to make deb-pkg in combination with module-assistant in > reaction to make-kpkg becoming deprecated by the Debian kernel team. > > Just a few weeks later, virtualbox-ose, one of my most important > applications, became converted to DKMS in reaction to #551531, which > made me first aware of DKMS, and which prompted a number of questions > I am seeking to have answered. Unfortunately, since the source format > mandated by DKMS is rather incompatible to everything that Debian used > to have, thus breaking both make-kpkg and module-assistant. > > (1) > According to http://wiki.debian.org/KernelDKMS, a DKMSized kernel > module source package is supposed to build _and_ _install_ itself from > its postinst. While this fits a scenario where a single-machine, > single-user desktop probably needs the modules built for the local box > automatically, this doesn't fit my build-only system where no > out-of-tree modules are ever actually used. [...]
Agreed - there should be a means to disable this in /etc/dkms/framework.conf. I think the dkms manual page answers your remaining questions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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