dkms install problems

[Silacci, Lucas]

It's funny you should mention this...

One of the ways I looked into working around my "lstart" issue was
simply changing the version number of the driver I was installing under
dkms even though there was no actual code change associated with it. I
then ran into this issue here where the driver binary was identical to
the previous version and was removed.

I thought of just using --force in my install, but I was afraid that
--force would mean that the install would ingnore errors that I wouldn't
want ignored. There might be reasons for the install failing that I
definitely want to get the error messages for and fail the dkms install
for and --force may cause them to be ignored.

So if there's nothing else that --force means during an install, I'm all
for making rpm_safe_upgrade imply force. If there are other errors that
it might hide, then maybe we would want to have a different option?

-Lucas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 8:32 PM
> To: Z?; dkms-devel at dell.com
> Subject: Re: dkms install problems
> 
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:25:44PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > I suspect the right answer is to add --force to the end of 
> the 'dkms 
> > install' command in the %post scriptlet.  That would cause 
> the install 
> > to happen even if it didn't need to, so the following uninstall 
> > doesn't leave you without a driver installed...
> 
> Hmm, maybe --rpm_safe_upgrade should imply the behaviour of 
> --force for the install step.  Then, we can release an 
> updated version of dkms that "just works" for all the 
> existing RPMs built like this.
> 
> I kind of like that...
> 
> If anyone has a patch of this, or another pet bug, now would 
> be a good time to send them to the list again.  If I'm fixing 
> this one, might as well apply other patches and do a release, 
> if there's anything out there that's bothering you...
> 
> -Matt
> 
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