[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#554843: Bug#554843: bullding pure binary deb packages

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Stefan,

> It is indeed possible to build those module packages. After dkms
> build, cd to /var/lib/dkms/$MODULE$/$MOD_VERS$/build and execute
>
> KVERS=`uname -r` fakeroot debian/rules binary-modules
>
> This will create the correct $MODULE-module-$KVERS-$MOD_VERS deb
> package with no Depends. I tested this with iscsitarget-dkms.

This feature depends on that target being available in the
iscsitarget-dkms package so is not easily generalised to other modules,
unfortunately.

I do agree that such a feature is very desirable in dkms.

Cheers,
Thijs