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Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.025
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
out-of-tree-modules are migrating to a new byzantine format called
DKMS. DKMS-"supporting"-modules cannot be built with make-kpkg
any more which breaks existing setups.
Please consider modifying make-kpkg so that it recognizes both
old-style module source packages and DKMS-style module source packages
and allows building both kinds in a unified way. This would be really
great.
Greetings
Marc
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 16 2009, Marc Haber wrote:
> out-of-tree-modules are migrating to a new byzantine format called
> DKMS. DKMS-"supporting"-modules cannot be built with make-kpkg
> any more which breaks existing setups.
Right, since they do not contain the ./debian/rules bits that
have the debian specific code, that recognized things like KMAINT,
KPKG_DEST_DIR, KPKG_MAINTAINER, etc, and provided the kdist target.
The packaging details live in the package modules rules file, not in
kernel-package, so reproducing that is non trivial.
> Please consider modifying make-kpkg so that it recognizes both
> old-style module source packages and DKMS-style module source packages
> and allows building both kinds in a unified way. This would be really
> great.
This is complex. Firstly, dkms assumes that you already have the
kernel image installed locally (it looks into the symbolic link
/lib/modules/$version/build/ for stuff), which is a totally different
paradigm from kernel-package, that does not assume that the build
machine is the targtet machine at all. This design mismatch makes
integration well nigh impossible.
Secondly, dkms has its own infrastructure -- mktarball adds
things the dkms source tree, and the target has to run ldtarball and
install to get the modules installed, bypassing the packaging system
entirely. Converting these to a properly packaged set of module package
is not trivial, and should not be conflated with ekrnel-package: a
whole new package dedicated to massaging the dkms binaries into debian
packages is the better way to go.
I am closing this report, but I'll reconsider if provided tested
patches ;-)
manoj
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