[Pkg-dkms-maint] DKMS not always working

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 12:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> [ Please cc me I'm not subscribed to debian-kernel ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in the last upgrades the auto-compilation of the virtualbox-ose module did
> not work for me.
> 
> Since the auto-compilation on boot got removed, we must ensure that it's
> properly compiled by the postinst of the linux-image package and there's
> no guaranty that it's possible since the linux-headers might not (yet) be
> installed. As it happens, I have linux-headers-2.6-amd64 installed and
> the headers are installed during upgrades... but they might be installed
> after the linux-image is configured apparently.
> 
> Thus I believe it would be useful for DKMS to hook into the postinst of
> the linux-headers packages too to ensure that modules are built for the
> corresponding linux-image package too.
[...]

This is wishlist bug #569724.  I do intend to add this some time soon.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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