HOWTO Build DKMS debs w/ Debian & Ubuntu systems
Copyright 2008 Dell Inc.
 Author: Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>

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A dkms deb is a common representation of a DKMS package that can be distributed across multiple machines.
After you have a functional DKMS package, you can follow these steps to build a DKMS deb.

1) Start out by putting together a tree in /usr/src/PACKAGE-VERSION.  For our example, we are going to use
the PACKAGE lirc and VERSION 0.8.3~pre1.  Create a dkms.conf per the recommendations in the DKMS guide.

2) "Add" the package to the dkms tree system:
	dkms add -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1

3) "Build" the binary modules for the current kernel:
	dkms build -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1

4) Make the deb and/or dsc for the package:
	dkms mkdeb -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
	dkms mkdsc -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1

The end result will be a deb and/or dsc in /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/deb or /var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/dsc

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If you would prefer not to contaminate your system with the changes from building these debs, you should
create a framework.conf that contains these variables (adjust for your use case):

	source_tree="/path/to/source/tree"
	dkms_tree="/path/to/dkms/tree"

You will then call DKMS with an extra variable, '--dkmsframework'.  Here is an example of how this would work
using the same lirc example above:

	dkms add -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
	dkms build -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
	dkms mkdeb -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf
	dkms mkdsc -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1 --dkmsframework framework.conf

The end result will be both a debian binary package and a debian source package that you can use.