[Pkg-dkms-maint] Need advice about module-assistant vs. dkms

[Ben Hutchings]

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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