In general, a DKMS tarball is placed inside the contents of this package, and the package itself calls various DKMS commands to load this tarball, build and install modules on the end user's system. If you do not want your debian package to contain any prebuilt binaries, be sure to specify --source-only in the mkdeb command.
There is a better solution than m-a: dkms. It actually makes it easier to distribute external kernel modules and automatically compiles them for newer ...
21.02.2017 · All the steps to create a deb package with a DKMS module. It’s assumes a native deb package for simplicity. Preparation. Install tools for deb packaging: apt install devscripts dh # TODO check it. Install DKMS: apt install dkms. Generate a base debian package. By default, dkms mkdsc uses the systems directories when creating and building a ...
07.03.2018 · In debian/changelog, pay attention to the version.The version of the driver is 2.4.6. Therefore, we use 2.4.6-0 for the package. In debian/rules, we install the source of the driver in /usr/src/i40e-2.4.6—the version is extracted from debian/changelog. The content of debian/i40e-dkms.dkms is described in detail in the dkms(8) manual page. ...
Debian package development tools dep: gcc GNU C compiler dep: kmod tools for managing Linux kernel modules or kldutils Package not available dep: make utility for directing compilation or build-essential Informational list of build-essential packages dep: patch
05.09.2013 · How can one use DKMS to build a proper debian source package? The mkdsc command will actually generate one automatically, but there are a few more steps to simplify it, and bring it up to date.. First follow the steps here for setting up a DKMS package. Make sure you can build it using dkms. Then do the following: