[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#475542: closed by Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org> (reply to daniel at debian.org) (Re: Bug#475542: Info received ( Bug#475542: virtualbox-ose-source should not))

[arne anka]

that's plain wrong.
the generated package does not need in any way those prebuild  
kernel-???-packages.
module-assistant works perfectly well in generating the package without  
those prebuild kernel-???-packages.

the only thing that does not work is the installation because of the  
unecessary dependencies.

there has never been a satisfying rationale for most of those kernel-???  
depencies (i never encountered a single one that did _not_ work after  
removing the dependencies) and i am sick and tired of those statements of  
yours below because the neither are true nor helping.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:33:14 +0200, Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org>  
wrote:

> arne anka wrote:
>> the issue of unnecessary dependencies in
>> prebuild kerne-packes comes up ...
>
> wrong, they are required.
>
> basically, your problem seems to be that using debian tools to manage
> kernel modules for non-.deb packaged kernels fails. guess what, that is
> indeed of no interest at all.
>
> if you don't use dpkg to manage kernels, you can't use it for modules
> either. that's why you shall read README.Debian in the
> /usr/share/doc/$module-source/. you can install modules from source by
> calling make in /usr/src/modules/$module/ approriately.
>