Wesley Clark has got a new official blog called Generally Speaking. There was some shake-up last week regarding WesleyClarkWeblog.com as it was originally listed as the official Clark Blog. Looks like they came to their senses and created something they could control ... officially.

Though, I'd prefer if they posted their entries under real people names as opposed to "Blog Team". I'd be interested to see how much Clark has raised in Q3 in these 2 short weeks.

DMKS 0.39.17 is available (tarball or RPM):

* Modified mktarball format to remove dependency on $source_tree and $dkms_tree. This means that regardless of these values between systems, you can now count on the tarball to properly load on another system with ldtarball. Note that because of this, any tarball made with mktarball before this version will not load properly anymore.

* Modified ldtarball to handle the new mktarball format. As well, ldtarball can now be used on any tar archive which contains a dkms.conf within it. It first checks to see if the tarball is made by mktarball. If not, it then finds the dkms.conf within the archive and then adds that archive to the dkms tree. This is very handy and can serve as an unpack routine as discussed in this thread.

* Ldtarball now uses the --archive option instead of the --config option. --archive is new and was created to alleviate any confusion over options.

* Added --kernelsourcedir option as well as $kernel_source_dir DKMS variable to allow specification of an alternate kernel source directory if it is not found as expected in /lib/modules/$kernelver/build

* Driver disk files for Red Hat driver disks are now looked for within the ./redhat_driver_disk directory within your sources

* Added $tmp_location variable available in /etc/dkms_framework.conf to specify an alternate location for your systems /tmp directory. The default is /tmp.

* Added diff checking in status command. Now, when a module is in the installed state, dkms checks to make sure that the module in the /lib/modules tree matches the one saved within the DKMS tree. This will help alleviate confusion if other packages start overwriting things that DKMS has put into place.

* Changed the build-arch of the RPM to noarch as my beautiful shell scripts are arch independent.

* Other miscellaneous changes which are available within the SRPM spec file changelog.