[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#554843: The mkdeb target isn't producing a binary-only package, though...

[Bill Gatliff]

Mike et. al:

I'm a DKMS noob but I really like the idea.  But I too need to be able
to produce binary-only packages--- and mkdeb isn't quite there.

Here is what the mkdeb output produces for the psb-kernel-source
package, which I assume is typical:

$ dpkg --contents
/var/lib/dkms/psb-kernel-source/4.41.1/deb/psb-kernel-source-dkms_4.41.1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-20 21:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-20 21:38 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-20 21:38 ./usr/src/
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1145212 2010-08-20 21:38
./usr/src/psb-kernel-source-4.41.1.dkms.tar.gz

What I'm really looking for is a package that contains only the
modules themselves, pre-built for a specific kernel.  So instead of
the above, I want to see a content list like:

$ dpkg -L a1rvc-video-modules-2.6.28.10-a1rvc
/.
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/a1rvc-video-modules-2.6.28.10-a1rvc
/usr/share/doc/a1rvc-video-modules-2.6.28.10-a1rvc/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/a1rvc-video-modules-2.6.28.10-a1rvc/copyright
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.28.10-a1rvc
/lib/modules/2.6.28.10-a1rvc/misc
/lib/modules/2.6.28.10-a1rvc/misc/a1rvc_video.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.28.10-a1rvc/misc/app_interface.ko

b.g.