If driver updates use DKMS, DKMS should be pulled in
Bug #576792 reported by
Mario Limonciello
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| casper (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
In order to be practical, driver update disks would commonly be built with DKMS. This would allow them to be applicable on the target system and any updated kernels (or PAE kernels) that were pulled in during installation.
The current driver update disk feature will not resolve the DKMS dependency prior to installing the driver update.
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
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To be fair, the current driver installer doesn't really resolve anything at all ;)
It just calls dpkg on whatever is in the directory, so you could get it to install dkms by dumping a 01dkms.deb file in there.
I suspect we probably want to implement full repository support in the feature to get proper dependency resolution.