dkms mkdeb fails: Can't find package

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Is anyone actively looking at this? I uploaded a patch, it just needs to be tested and merged.

Have you submitted it to the upstream developers of dkms on github? The file is included there and the project can be found here:

https://github.com/dell/dkms

I haven't because this is a Debian/Ubuntu-specific bug. IIRC
Debian/Ubuntu's file is different from vanilla dkms'.

2017-11-15 18:56 GMT-03:00 Brian Murray <email address hidden>:
> Have you submitted it to the upstream developers of dkms on github? The
> file is included there and the project can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/dell/dkms
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729051
>
> Title:
> dkms mkdeb fails: Can't find package
>
> Status in dkms package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in dkms package in Debian:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> For some reason, the Debian version of dkms mkdeb tries to generate a
> .deb package with the current arch as a suffix in its name, instead of
> 'all'. However, since the control file wasn't properly set up, the
> .deb file will have the 'all' suffix and dkms mkdeb will fail.
>
> This bug is also present in Ubuntu. I added a patch to the original
> Debian bug report, here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832558
>
> but since the original bug report was made about a year ago and nobody
> cared, I'm hoping that someone will at least fix this for Ubuntu.
>
> The patch looks like this:
>
> --- a/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:40:41.690069116 -0300
> +++ b/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:41:12.137973994 -0300
> @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
> Standards-Version: 3.8.1
>
> Package: DEBIAN_PACKAGE-dkms
> -Architecture: all
> +Architecture: DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH
> Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), ${misc:Depends}
> Description: DEBIAN_PACKAGE driver in DKMS format.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. dkms version is 2.3-3ubuntu3.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1729051/+subscriptions

It looks the same to me.

https://github.com/dell/dkms/blob/master/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:49:01AM -0000, martin wrote:
> I haven't because this is a Debian/Ubuntu-specific bug. IIRC
> Debian/Ubuntu's file is different from vanilla dkms'.
>
> 2017-11-15 18:56 GMT-03:00 Brian Murray <email address hidden>:
> > Have you submitted it to the upstream developers of dkms on github? The
> > file is included there and the project can be found here:
> >
> > https://github.com/dell/dkms
> >
> > --
> > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> > report.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729051
> >
> > Title:
> > dkms mkdeb fails: Can't find package
> >
> > Status in dkms package in Ubuntu:
> > Confirmed
> > Status in dkms package in Debian:
> > New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > For some reason, the Debian version of dkms mkdeb tries to generate a
> > .deb package with the current arch as a suffix in its name, instead of
> > 'all'. However, since the control file wasn't properly set up, the
> > .deb file will have the 'all' suffix and dkms mkdeb will fail.
> >
> > This bug is also present in Ubuntu. I added a patch to the original
> > Debian bug report, here:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832558
> >
> > but since the original bug report was made about a year ago and nobody
> > cared, I'm hoping that someone will at least fix this for Ubuntu.
> >
> > The patch looks like this:
> >
> > --- a/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:40:41.690069116 -0300
> > +++ b/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:41:12.137973994 -0300
> > @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
> > Standards-Version: 3.8.1
> >
> > Package: DEBIAN_PACKAGE-dkms
> > -Architecture: all
> > +Architecture: DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH
> > Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), ${misc:Depends}
> > Description: DEBIAN_PACKAGE driver in DKMS format.
> >
> > I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. dkms version is 2.3-3ubuntu3.
> >
> > To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1729051/+subscriptions
>
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>
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Brian Murray
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Yes, that file is the same. What's different is https://github.com/dell/dkms/blob/master/dkms. The dkms script that's distributed with Debian/Ubuntu looks for DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH in the control file.

It's been almost a month and people are still tripping over this bug. Is anyone looking at this at all?

This bug was fixed in the package dkms - 2.3-3ubuntu4

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dkms (2.3-3ubuntu4) bionic; urgency=medium

  * 0015-change-arch-in-mkdeb-template.patch: Utilize DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH in the
    control file for mkdeb. Thanks to Launchpad user martin for the patch.
    (LP: #1729051)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:32:01 -0800