[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#554843: bullding pure binary deb kernel module packages with the help of dkms

[Christopher Huhn]

Hi folks,

I'd also appreciate this a lot and I don't think that this is something
the driver packages schould provide by themself.

Simple use case: Many (> 100) file servers running Debian stable with
the same kernel version (ideally the Debian standard kernel) and Adaptec
RAID controllers need a newer/the newest aacraid driver while upgrading
the whole kernel is impossible.

Adaptec provides the driver source with dkms (as a source RPM). dkms on
Debian easily turns it into a aacraid-dkms package that 1) builds the
module and 2) installs it to a location where it takes precedence over
the old module version provided with the stock kernel, runs depmod ...

In this use case it would be very desirable that step 1 is run on only
one server, creates an aacraid-module-<kernel version>.deb containing
the binary module and a postinst executing step 2) that can be deployed
to the other (> 99) servers without the need for dkms and its
dependencies on all servers.

Cheers,
    Christopher