[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#843113: better missing kernel headers message

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: reassign -1 dkms

On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 07:37 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.8.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Setting up linux-image-4.8.0-1-686-pae (4.8.5-1) ...
> I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-1-686-pae
> I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-1-686-pae
> I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-1-686-pae
> I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-1-686-pae
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
> Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 4.8.0-1-686-pae cannot be found.
> Please install the linux-headers-4.8.0-1-686-pae package,
> or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
> 
> 1. That error message is not coming from that file.
[...]

That's the hook script the kernel's postint script is running, that
(indirectly) generates the error message.  The error message *does*
come from dkms.

Ben.

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