Package: open-vm-dkms
Version: 2:8.8.0+2011.10.26-514583-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
it looks like open-vm-pkms is missing a call:
dkms add -m open-vm-tools -v <open-vm-tool's current version>
in the postinst and the corresponding:
dkms remove ...
on thre prerm step.
This leads to dkms not being aware of open-vm-tools and thus not building the
modules.
I first tried to call the various parts of the kernel-headers postinst related
to dkms, then called dkms directly, ... nothing worked.
I.e. although no error messages were printed, the modules weren't built either.
Googling around for dkms a bit I found that dkms needs to 'know' the packages.
After I made dkms manually aware of open-vm-tools by calling 'dkms add ...'
the kernel-header postinst did its job, the modules were built and I was able
to e.g. mount the host's file system .
Maybe calling 'dkms add ...' manually is not the ideal way to do it.
It looks like dkms supports debhelper with a script named 'dh_dkms',
and with v8+ dh seems to know an option '--with dkms' (I found that one
by looking at the debian.tar.gz files of other ...-dkms packages in the
archive [e.g. xtables-addons_1.40-1.debian.tar.gz])
Thanks for maintaining open-vm-tools in Debian
Peter
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages open-vm-dkms depends on:
ii dkms 2.2.0.3-1
ii make 3.81-8.1
Versions of packages open-vm-dkms recommends:
ii open-vm-tools 2:8.8.0+2011.10.26-514583-1+b1
Versions of packages open-vm-dkms suggests:
ii open-vm-toolbox 2:8.8.0+2011.10.26-514583-1+b1
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