[Expired for dkms (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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It actually only sets it explicitly on Ubuntu. The way that logic was
put together was to prevent breaking on RHEL.
If it's causing an error on your scenario, can you please provide the
output of the error? The -a is a supported parameter and shouldn't be
treated as a directory.
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apport information
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: dkms
I was experiencing a problem trying to install virtualbox that reminded me of
a very similar problem with the nvidia driver package. Some errors indicated
that dkms failed while trying to find a directory named "-a". I
Regarding your comments:
1. The patch can be trivially reworked to be against the dkms source.
Let me know if you need help with this.
2. The patch fixed the problem while unpatched it was erroring out.
If ARCH is not supplied to the script, the script itself sets it.
/bin/sh on this machine is
apport information
** Tags added: apport-collected
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: dkms
- I was experiencing a problem trying to install virtualbox that reminded
- me of a very similar problem with the nvidia driver package. Some errors
- indicated that dkms failed while trying
** Tags added: patch-needswork
** Tags removed: patch
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Title:
$ARCH in common.postinst breaks everything
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The patch dkms.diff seems incorrect for a few reasons:
1. It's a patch against the local filesystem, not against the dkms
source.
2. I can't see it fixing the problem. In fact, the patch should
introduce the bug or make it worse. Because $ARCH is an optional
variable, it can be empty. That means
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** Patch added: "dkms.diff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785937/+attachment/2136718/+files/dkms.diff
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$ARCH in common.postinst breaks
