[Pkg-dkms-maint] Howto use dkms with virtualbox and nvidia

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:13 +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> dkms seems to be a very nice solution for out of the kernel modules. I 
> would have a great use for virtualbox and nvidia kernel modules with 
> extra deb packages. But how do I use it? Do I have do edit some .conf 
> file or sould the maintainer of the package that provide the source (or 
> wrappers) for the kernel modules provide integration into dkms like it 
> is said in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528758

The Debian way of building out-of-tree modules is to use
module-assistant.  DKMS is useful for building modules that haven't been
packaged specifically for Debian.

DKMS does have one feature over module-assistant which is that it will
attempt to rebuild modules after installation of a new kernel package.
If you want this feature for native Debian packages, please file a
wishlist bug against module-assistant.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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