DKMS

No apparent way to force DKMS to rebuild an already built package

Bug #1265136 reported by Christ Schlacta
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
DKMS
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

There is no way to force DKMS to rebuild what it believes to be a properly built and installed kernel module. Some combination of the following self-explanatory commands should be added to DKMS to provide this functionality

clean
rebuild
reinstall

Thank you for remedying this promptly.

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Frederick J. Henderson (frederickjh) wrote :

Try removing the module then building.

 sudo dkms remove modulename -k $(uname -r)

then

 sudo dkms build modulename -k (uname -r)

This will rebuild the module for the currently running kernel.

Fabio Augusto Miranda Martins (fabio.martins)
Changed in dkms:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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David A. Desrosiers (setuid) wrote :

I've had to do this about 200 times this week for an out-of-tree vendor driver just this week.

With a current dkms version, this should be:

# Remove and uninstall the module from the current kernel
sudo dkms remove -m <module> -v <version> -k $(uname -r) # or -k all

# Build and install the module for the current kernel
sudo dkms install -m <module> -v <version> -k $(uname -r) # or -k all

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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote :

@setuid, you might want to file a bug on https://github.com/dell/dkms/issues instead.

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Bill McGonigle (bill-launchpad-net) wrote :

I filed one over there since I hit the same issue:

https://github.com/dell/dkms/issues/120

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