openvswitch-datapath-dkms package depends on missing kernel headers

[jimp]

Release: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

As I was diagnosing this bug I reported [ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-api/+bug/1176256 ], I discovered that my issue was really related to openvswitch-datapath-dkms requiring kernel headers that were not installed. Once I manually installed the kernel headers the error output suggested, the installation completed without error.

Should the openvswitch-datapath-dkms package depend on the kernel headers in order to install correctly?

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

I don't think so. If there's a package to fix, it would be dkms itself, not openvswitch-datapath-dkms. In Debian, we have:

Package: dkms
Depends: module-init-tools, gcc, make | build-essential | dpkg-dev, coreutils (>= 7.4), patch
Recommends: fakeroot, menu | sudo, linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers, linux-image

which I think is fine. What do you guys have in Ubuntu?

Thomas

[James Page (james-page)]

The real trick is to determine which headers should be installed; Ubuntu have multiple different kernel variants and versions available for 12.04.

Most standard Ubuntu installs will include the correct kernel-headers for the kernel being installed; I'm guessing that this is not standard.