Just got home from the Wesley Clark Meetup at Opal Devine's on 6th Street. While the gist of the meeting was organizational, the whole thing was pretty fascinating. There were roughly 75 people crammed onto the deck, and this all for a candidate that has yet to announce that he is indeed running. Ages ranged across the board from 20 - 70 and not only were there at least a handful of people that switched over from the Dean Meetup, a couple people actually raised their hands as Republicans.

The word at the Meetup was that Clark was going to announce between September 15th and September 19th. As more proof that his entrance is imminent, this statement was released by Clark today to his volunteers thanking them for coming to their last "draft" Clark meetup.

So now I'm pumped to move onto the elect meetup. While Texas is a shoe-in for Bush in the national election, Clark still needs to win the democrat nomination first -- and Texas has some 243 primary votes to decide who that democrat will be. Personally, I'd prefer they go to Clark instead of Dean.

DKMS 0.34.10 is now available (tarball or RPM):

* Added the dkms_autoinstaller service (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller). Its purpose is to automatically install modules during bootup onto kernels which do not already have that module installed for it. It only does the install, though, if AUTOINSTALL="yes" is set in that module's dkms.conf. If multiple versions of the same module exist in DKMS, the autoinstaller does not install that module and warns appropriately.

* Added the AUTOINSTALL="yes" option available in dkms.conf. See above.

* Added the --no-prepare-kernel and --no-clean-kernel cli options. These were needed to create the autoinstaller service but might be applicable in other areas. --no-prepare-kernel skips any kernel preparation before building a module whereas --no-clean-kernel does not clean the kernel after building a module.