[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: Make DKMS automatically build for running kernel.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Jun 19 16:41:51 UTC 2012


Thanks, I pushed this to master and branch-1.[4567] and I will soon
upload an updated package to Debian.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:17:26AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> FWIW, I don't know much about DKMS, but it looks reasonable from my
> quick web search.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > By default DKMS doesn't build on demand for each kernel booted or updated.
> > Adding AUTOINSTALL=yes gives it this behavior.  Based on a small sample of
> > Debian packages and how-to guides for Ubuntu, AUTOINSTALL=yes is what most
> > packages use and what users expect.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Ralf Heiringhoff <ralf at frosty-geek.net>
> > Reported-at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962189
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> > ---
> > AUTHORS             |    1 +
> > debian/dkms.conf.in |    1 +
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
> > index 10a01ab..f4d6ce5 100644
> > --- a/AUTHORS
> > +++ b/AUTHORS
> > @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ Paul Ingram             paul at nicira.com
> > Paulo Cravero           pcravero at as2594.net
> > Peter Balland           peter at nicira.com
> > Peter Phaal             peter.phaal at inmon.com
> > +Ralf Heiringhoff        ralf at frosty-geek.net
> > Ram Jothikumar          rjothikumar at nicira.com
> > Ramana Reddy            gtvrreddy at gmail.com
> > Rob Sherwood            rob.sherwood at bigswitch.com
> > diff --git a/debian/dkms.conf.in b/debian/dkms.conf.in
> > index eaf0541..0d3db76 100644
> > --- a/debian/dkms.conf.in
> > +++ b/debian/dkms.conf.in
> > @@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ BUILT_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=datapath/linux/
> > BUILT_MODULE_LOCATION[1]=datapath/linux/
> > DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=/kernel/drivers/net/openvswitch/
> > DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[1]=/kernel/drivers/net/openvswitch/
> > +AUTOINSTALL=yes
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.5
> > 
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