[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#553600: dkms: Error message could be improved a bit
Philipp Kaluza
pk+debs at yomu.de
Sun Nov 1 11:24:21 UTC 2009
Package: dkms
Version: 2.1.0.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi DKMS team,
(This is a little follow-up bug for #553542.)
I've been playing with dkms to see how it will help us get rid of the
horribleness that is linux-modules-extra.
| Setting up openafs-modules-dkms (1.4.11+dfsg-4) ...
|
| Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.4.11/source ->
| /usr/src/openafs-1.4.11
|
| DKMS: add Completed.
|
| Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.30-2-686 cannot be found at
| /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build or /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/source.
| You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
The above error message is pretty helpful already, but could be improved
slightly when dkms is detecting it's running on debian-style distros:
It should maybe point the user to install the "linux-headers-<version>"
package, as that's all that is required (no full source).
In any case,
s/Your kernel source/Your kernel headers/
might be a good idea.
Bye,
Philipp
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii gcc 4:4.3.3-9 The GNU C compiler
ii make 3.81-6 An utility for Directing compilati
ii module-init-tools 3.10-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.13 Gives a fake root environment
ii linux-headers-2.6.30-2- 2.6.30-8 Header files for Linux 2.6.30-2-68
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-vs 2.6.26-19lenny1 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
ii linux-image-2.6.30-2-68 2.6.30-8 Linux 2.6.30 image on PPro/Celeron
ii linux-image-2.6.30-pxp0 2.6.30-pxp06-0.1 Linux kernel binary image for vers
ii lsb-release 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base version report
ii menu 2.1.41 generates programs menu for all me
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii sudo-ldap [sudo] 1.7.2-2 Provide limited super user privile
dkms suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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