Comment 1 for bug 599983

Peter,

There was a massive rewrite of DKMS for bash optimization over the last year. Within this a lot of little weird corner case bugs like this got cleaned up. I actually just tried using a package with a "-" in the name and it appears to handle properly now:

supermario@mlimonciello ~ $ sudo dkms add -m nvidia_bl -v 0.69-1

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia_bl/0.69-1/source ->
                 /usr/src/nvidia_bl-0.69-1

DKMS: add Completed.
supermario@mlimonciello ~ $ sudo dkms install -m nvidia_bl -v 0.69-1

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.38-8-generic-pae -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia_bl/0.69-1/build modules....
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build Completed.

nvidiabl.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install Completed.