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

[Eriberto]

Hi,

lime-forensics is under Debian Forensics Team. However, thanks for your efforts.

Regards,

Eriberto


2016-04-29 8:45 GMT-03:00 Christopher Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>:
> 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
>
>