DKMS 0.42.03 is now available (tarball or RPM):

* Added --binaries-only option usable during mktarball. This will create a DKMS tarball which does not contain source. This helps in keeping down the size of the tarball if you know that the target system already has the source installed. DKMS will only load a binaries-only tarball with ldtarball, if the target system already has source for that module/module-version added to the tree. If it does not, DKMS will not load the binaries-only tarball and will exit out.

By Gary at 10:47 AM in Linux | Comments (0)  

DKMS 0.41.15 is now available (tarball or RPM):

* During install of a module, if depmod or mkinitrd fail, it automatically backs out of the install and goes back to the built state

* During uninstall of a module, if mkinitrd fails, it warns loudly.

By Gary at 03:44 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  

DKMS 0.41.11 is now available (tarball or RPM):

* Moved dkms from /sbin/dkms to /usr/sbin/dkms

* Thanks to the work of Matt Domsch, there is now a Red Hat kernel preparation routine which removes the time consuming make dep stage for module builds on Red Hat kernels. In order to utilize this improved process, you kernel sources must be in a pristine state as delivered by the Red Hat kernel-source RPM (they've never had make dep or make mrproper run on them). So, if you've previously used DKMS for a kernel, you'll either have to reinstall your kernel source, or stick with the "General" preparation routine as before.

* Added /usr/sbin/dkms_mkkerneldoth to enable the quicker Red Hat prep routine

* Fixed a bug in dkms_autoinstaller which was causing it not to run correctly

* Fixed a bug during uninstall where original_modules were not actually getting reinstalled even though it told you they were

* Fixed DKMS to unset all arrays before using them.

* Changed expected driver disk file "module-info" to "modinfo" in order to support legacy Red Hat driver disk formats

* Fixed mkdriverdisk such that it actually copies the rhdd-6.1 file into the driver disk image

* Kernel makefiles are no longer edited during kernel preparation. Instead KERNELRELEASE=$kernel_version is passed to make commands.

* Removed the unnecessary depmod during uninstall of a module

By Gary at 04:58 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  

Foo has gone mostly unupdated lately as I've been working hard on producing some new blogs. Go check out TexasForClarkBlog.com to see the final product. The site design was mostly done by Kathy Oeffinger and I think it came out well. She's been busy at work on the TexasForClark.com site.

By Gary at 12:48 PM in Miscellaneous | Comments (0)  

I thought I would try my hand at blog-ing from my new cell phone (Samsung i500 w/ 3g internet). It seems appropriate given the concert I went to yesterday (Moe.) offered full recordings of the show on CD just 10 minutes after it concluded, while during the concert I was simultaneously tivo-ing the football game (Ohio State) so that I could watch it straight afterward as if I were watching it live (as I had no knowledge of its outcome). The evolution of human information interaction continues.

A culture of instant gratification? Hardly. If it were, the Buckeyes would have won.

By Gary at 09:03 PM in Sci/Tech | Comments (0)  

Devlabel 0.43.16 is available (tarball or RPM):

* Created a device ignore list in /var/lib/devlabel/ignore_list such that devlabel can keep track of devices it shouldn't query for IDs since it knows they won't return IDs and likely will only spew errors to the screen instead. The ignore_list is cleared every time devlabel is restarted or after /proc/partitions has changed since the last time devlabel has run.

* The previous version (0.42.05) had a bug in it due to the way it used sfdisk -V to determine if a device should be ignored or not. This bug will make devlabel unable to use any device that has trivial problems in its partitioning scheme (eg. paritition does not end on a cylinder boundary). This has been fixed in this version.

* Added mktemp as a required package.

By Gary at 05:26 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  

DKMS 0.40.11 is available (tarball or RPM):

* `dkms add` no longer copies dkms.conf and any post script into the /var/dkms tree. To avoid duplication, it now just uses these directly from the source_tree in /usr/src/<module>-<module_version>/. This change to the tree architecture caused me to bump the dkms_dbversion from 1.00 to 1.01.

* Got rid of the options --postadd, --postremove, --postinstall and --postbuild. Replaced these with equivalent directives in dkms.conf POST_ADD=, POST_REMOVE=, POST_INSTALL= and POST_BUILD=. This was to go along with the above change. All script path names should be given relative to the root directory of your module's source.

* Added the flag --rpm_safe_upgrade. This flag should be used in all dkms-enabled RPM modules during the ADD and REMOVE. Thus, in your spec file, all adds should be: dkms add -m <module> -v <version> --rpm_safe_upgrade. All removes in RPM spec files should now be: dkms remove -m <module> -v <version> --all --rpm_safe_upgrade. Using this rpm_safe_upgrade flag makes sure that in all RPM upgrade scenarios (rpm -Uvh), dkms behaves appropriately. See the man page for more details.

* Added a sample dkms.conf to /usr/share/doc (called sample.conf)

By Gary at 02:07 PM in Linux | Comments (0)