[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#533217: Bug#533217: nvidia-kernel-source 185.18.14-1 does not build under vanilla 2.6.28 or 2.6.30

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:04:04AM -0700, Randall Donald wrote:

> Yes the kdist target is still missing. The changelog mentions that
> module-assistant is still the only working build method. 

How is one supposed to do this?  As I have previously reported,
module-assistant doesn't actually work either:

# module-assistant build -l 2.6.29-2-amd64 nvidia-kernel

...

/usr/bin/make -C . LINUXDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.29-2-amd64/build KVERREL=2.6.29-2-amd64
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
# Install the modules
dh_installdirs
install -m 0644 /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/override
/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/nvidia-kernel-2.6.29-2-amd64/usr/share/lintian/overrides/nvidia-kernel-2.6.29-2-amd64
install -m 0644 /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvidia.ko
/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/nvidia-kernel-2.6.29-2-amd64/lib/modules/2.6.29-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
; \

install: cannot stat `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvidia.ko': No such file or directory