[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#762061: virtualbox-dkms fails to build on standard 3.14.15 kernel

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 21:04 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dkms
> Control: retitle -1 dkms should pull in the correct linux-headers package
> 
> 
> Thanks Ben. Omar: This bug is specific to dkms. That package should pull 
> in the correct linux-headers package (based on the architecture), which 
> is required to build the virtualbox-dkms package.

But it cannot do this by declaring dependencies.  Unfortunately it is
also impossible to install the right package using APT, when building
during installation of another package.

What I think it should do is to check that /lib/modules/$KVERS/build
exists and is not a dangling symlink, and if not then prompt to install
linux-headers-$KVERS.  (This should be a file test rather than a package
test, so it works with unpackaged kernel installations.)  Installation
of linux-headers-$KVERS package should then trigger building all
installed DKMS module sources via DKMS's postinst hook.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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