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)