[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#554565: virtualbox-ose-source: Missing instructions for compiling on new dkms scheme

[Klaus Knopper]

Package: virtualbox-ose-source
Version: 3.0.10-dfsg-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source


The instructions for compiling this packages in
/usr/share/doc/virtualbox-ose-source/README.Debian still explain how to
compile the module using make-kpkg, but this does not work anymore for
version 3.0.10-dfsg-1 which is supposed to be built with dkms.  There is
no hint for either migration to dkms, nor examples on how to compile the
actual module(s) with dkms.

1. Referral to the dkms manpage is not very helpful in this case.
   Examples would be helpful.
2. There should be a notification during install about the build
   environment change. The long description of the package still
   mentions "Kernel sources or headers are required to compile
   this module." as (only apparent) requirement.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash