[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#695824: dkms: Cannot locate dkms.conf

[Tom Epperly]

Thanks for the suggestion. I do seem to have one '*-dkms' package installed.

> dpkg --list '*-dkms'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  nvidia-kernel- 304.64-2     amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS


> dpkg --listfiles nvidia-kernel-dkms | grep dkms.conf
/usr/src/nvidia-304.64/dkms.conf
> cat /usr/src/nvidia-304.64/dkms.conf
# DKMS configuration for the NVIDIA kernel module.  -*- sh -*-

# The version is replaced at build time by dh_dkms invoked in debian/rules.
PACKAGE_NAME="nvidia"
PACKAGE_VERSION="304.64"

BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="$PACKAGE_NAME"
DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/updates/dkms"
AUTOINSTALL=yes

MAKE[0]="env CCACHE_DISABLE=1 \
    make -C . LINUXDIR=${kernel_source_dir} KVERREL=${kernelver}"
CLEAN="make -C . LINUXDIR=${kernel_source_dir} KVERREL=${kernelver} clean"

Thanks,

Tom

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> On 2012-12-13 05:43, Tom Epperly wrote:
>> Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
>> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.2.0-4-amd64
>> Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
>> File:  does not exist.
>
> Perhaps you don't have any *-dkms package installed (and dkms does not
> gracefully handle this ...)
>
>> I don't know where dkms.conf is supposed to be or where it's supposed
>> to come from.
>
> from kernel module source, usually a package called foo-dkms and
> installing to /usr/src/foo-VERSION
>
> Andreas