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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. In fact from no
file with dkms in its name:
$ dlocate --filename-only dkms|xargs grep Error.*You 2>&-|wc -l
0
2. Please also have the message mention if one then needs to reinstall
linux-image-4.8.0-1-686-pae .
(Seen when offine installing from a /var/cache/apt/archives/ that has
some, but not all packages...)
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.1.4-1
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:35:37 +0100 Fabian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
dkms: WARNING: Linux headers are missing, which may explain the above
failures.
please install the linux-headers-5.10.0-2-amd64 package to fix this.
There are no "above failures", so reading this warning message is
somewhat misleading. Of course, if dkms needs some extra package, it
...> But perhaps it is possible to make the above warning conditional and
only print it if there actually were any errors?
The misleading message is gone since 3.1.4
Andreas
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