[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#554843: bullding pure binary deb packages for modules which do not depend on dkms

[Wolfgang Walter]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.1.0.1-2
Severity: wishlist

virtualbox-ose-source now uses dkms. This makes it almost impossible to build 
deb-packages for the kernel-modules for other hosts.

I know dkms provides a method to build such a deb-packages in principle but it 
has several heavy shortcommings compared to the old method:

1) You must install dkms on the target machine. => you must also install gcc, 
cpp, binutils, ... as dkms depends on gcc.

2) You must install the module sources on the target.

3) If you install a new self-build kernel it calls dkms_autoinstaller. Either 
it fails (no kernel-source) or it starts to compile these modules as root.


Please provide a mechanism to build a debian package which doesn't depend 
itself on dkms and which only includes the kernel-modules as binary.

Regards
-- 
Wolfgang Walter