[Pkg-dkms-maint] Interested in joining the dkms team?

[Christopher Arges]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna <
locutusofborg at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi, sorry for the little OT.
>
> I have really little knowledge in dkms, even if I try to maintain
> virtualbox-*-dkms packages
>
> Unfortunately Ubuntu started requiring signed kernel modules for xenial (I
> think), and this is
> preventing many packages from correctly working (including virtualbox)
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1574300
> do you plan to implement something in dkms side for module signature?
>
>
Gianfranco,

Signed module verification is only for the 'linux-signed' variants of the
Ubuntu kernel.
In addition module verification can be disabled for users of DKMS:

http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566221
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Spec/InstallingUnsignedSecureBoot
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-x-installing-unsigned-secureboot

--chris


> (note: I didn't dig too much in this issue)
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Gianfranco, virtualbox maintainer.
>
>
> Il Venerdì 29 Aprile 2016 8:22, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> ha
> scritto:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Also, note that dkms in unstable now have autopkgtest support, so please
> > enable autopkgtests in all the packages using dkms in Debian. :)
>
> I am happy to report that this worked just fine for
> <URL: https://ci.debian.net/packages/s/spl-linux/ >.
>
> Please join the dkms project on
> <URL: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-dkms > and the mailing lists
> via <URL: https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=100225 > if you want
> to help out, and we continue on the mailing list.
>
> There are heaps of bugs in BTS, lots of patches from Ubuntu and several
> missing features in the dkms package (like an autopkgtest and a build
> time testsuite) which would be nice to have to make maintenance
> easier.  Enough for everyone to chip in. :)
>
> Lets meet on #debian-dkms to coordinate. :)
>
>
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>
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