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- HOWTO Build DKMS debs w/ Debian & Ubuntu systems
- Copyright 2008 Dell Inc.
- Author: Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com>
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- A dkms deb is a common representation of a DKMS package that can be distributed across multiple machines.
- After you have a functional DKMS package, you can follow these steps to build a DKMS deb.
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- 1) Start out by putting together a tree in /usr/src/PACKAGE-VERSION. For our example, we are going to use
- the PACKAGE lirc and VERSION 0.8.3~pre1. Create a dkms.conf per the recommendations in the DKMS guide.
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- 2) "Add" the package to the dkms tree system:
- dkms add -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
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- 3) "Build" the binary modules for the current kernel:
- dkms build -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
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- 4) Make the deb and/or dsc for the package:
- dkms mkdeb -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
- dkms mkdsc -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
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- The end result will be a deb and/or dsc in /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/deb or /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/dsc
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- If you would prefer not to contaminate your system with the changes from building these debs, you should
- create a framework.conf that contains these variables (adjust for your use case):
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- source_tree="/path/to/source/tree"
- dkms_tree="/path/to/dkms/tree"
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- You will then call DKMS with an extra variable, '--dkmsframework'. Here is an example of how this would work
- using the same lirc example above:
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- dkms add -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
- dkms build -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
- dkms mkdeb -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
- dkms mkdsc -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
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- The end result will be both a debian binary package and a debian source package that you can use.
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