[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#556128: Bug#556128: virtualbox-ose-source: to build module, need dependency with "kbuild" package

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:30 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 04:40:05AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> >  I used m-a to build vboxdrv kernel module with virtualbox-ose, but it failed
> >  because "kmk" command was not found. It is included with kbuild package.
> >  After installing kbuild package, it succeeded to build module.
> 
> This seems to be impossible. But without knowing the version number you're
> refering to I cannot say for sure. Anyway, all versions up to 3.0.10-dfsg-1 did
> depend on kbuild. Version 3.0.10-dfsg-1 does not but it also does not provide
> the tarball needed to compile with m-a. This is a known bug/feature request and
> already fixed in git.

 Sorry for lack of information, I used virtualbox-ose-source (3.0.10-dfsg-1).
 And now, it seems not depend to kbuild...

Package: virtualbox-ose-source
Priority: extra
Section: kernel
Installed-Size: 3156
Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <pkg-virtualbox-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.0.10-dfsg-2
Depends: make | build-essential | dpkg-dev
Recommends: dkms
Suggests: debhelper (>= 5), bzip2, kbuild, module-assistant

 But it is in Suggests.



> Therefore I just close this bug report, should you see some different facts,
> feel free to reopen and give us the needed details.

 So, how about reopen this?


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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp
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