[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#566626: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: updating a kernel should start re-building DKMS modules

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Sun Jan 24 14:18:36 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:18:54AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> DKMS installs a script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d which will be called by
> the kernel package installation script.  This will rebuild modules as
> necessary.  However, packages using DKMS have to opt in to this
> automatic rebuild (AUTOINSTALL=yes), and it seems that virtualbox-ose
> does not.

What else does the virtuabox-ose package need other than this?

michael at feivel:~$ grep AUTOINSTALL /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-3.1.2/dkms.conf
AUTOINSTALL="yes"

I've seen the same problems coming up several times because dkms couldn't tell
that it had to recompile because the kernel version number didn't change. Are
you sure this is not the reason?

Michael
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