[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#704917: missleading documentation for dkms add
Evgeni Golov
evgeni at debian.org
Sun Apr 7 16:31:00 UTC 2013
Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: minor
Hi,
man dkms says about dkms add:
add [module/module-version] [/path/to/source-tree] [/path/to/tarball.tar]
Adds a module/module-version combination to the tree for builds and
installs. If module/module-version, -m module/module-version, or -m
module -v version are passed as options, this command requires source
in /usr/src/<module>-<module-version>/ as well as a properly formatted
dkms.conf file. If /path/to/source-tree is passed as an option, and
source-tree contains a dkms.conf file, it will copy
/path/to/source-tree to /usr/src/module-module-version.
If /path/to/tarball.tar is passed, this command behaves like the
ldtarball command.
With that formating, I would expect to call it like this:
dkms add module/0.123 /tmp/here/I/downloaded
But actually, you have to call
dkms add /tmp/here/I/downloaded
And dkms will read the name and version from the dkms.conf.
I think the manpage should read:
add [module/module-version | /path/to/source-tree | /path/to/tarball.tar]
instead.
Regards
Evgeni
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii build-essential 11.6
ii coreutils 8.20-3
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10
ii gcc 4:4.7.2-1
ii make 3.81-8.2
ii module-init-tools 9-2
ii patch 2.6.1-3
Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
ii linux-headers-3.1.0-1-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.1.8-2
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-1-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.2.7-1
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-2-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.2.20-1
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-3-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.2.23-1
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.2.41-2
ii linux-headers-3.7-trunk-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.7.1-1~experimental.2
ii linux-headers-amd64 [linux-headers] 3.2+46
ii linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 [linux-image] 3.1.8-2
ii linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.7-1
ii linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.20-1
ii linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.23-1
ii linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.41-2
ii linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 [linux-image] 3.7.1-1~experimental.1
ii menu 2.1.46
ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1
dkms suggests no packages.
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