Package: dkms Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
Please consider patching dkms when built for Debian to avoid unnecessary rpm commands. We know that Debian systems do not use the rpm database so there is no need to query it. The lsb-core package pulls in rpm. The primary reason to patch these commands out is because when rpm is installed, an rpm database query will be run unavoidably. With the default configuration of the rpm package for Debian, this will create an empty rpm database in either /root/.rpmdb (if HOME=/root) or in the system root directory /.rpmdb (if HOME is not set, e.g. running under PackageKit). Avoiding rpmdb queries in dkms will avoid inadvertent creation of these stray directories. A patch to dkms [1] was posted to Ubuntu bug #1069350 [2] that is reported there to fix this behavior. [1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/167218071/disable-rpm.patch [2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1069350 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dkms depends on: ii build-essential 11.6 ii coreutils 8.21-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6 ii gcc 4:4.8.2-2 ii make 3.81-8.3 ii module-init-tools 16-2 ii patch 2.7.1-4 Versions of packages dkms recommends: ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 ii linux-headers-amd64 3.12+55 pn linux-image <none> ii menu 2.1.46 ii sudo 1.8.9p5-1 dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-dkms-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-dkms-maint
