ANNOUNCE: dkms 2.0.17

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 12:50:35 CDT 2007


On 6/21/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> DKMS 2.0.17 is now available.  Big change is the addition of Ubuntu
> 7.04 Feisty Fawn support, with new actions 'mkdeb' and 'mkdriverdisk
> -d ubuntu'.  Note, 7.04 can't actually load driver disks.  This has
> been fixed in Gutsy.  DKMS also recognizes the install, uninstall, or
> update of the linux-image and linux-headers deb packages, and invokes
> the autoinstaller in these instances, even before reboot.
>
>
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/dkms-2.0.17-1.noarch.rpm
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/dkms-2.0.17-1.src.rpm
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/dkms-2.0.17.tar.gz
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/dkms-2.0.17.tar.gz.sign
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/debian/dkms_2.0.17-1_all.deb
>
> GIT: http://linux.dell.com/git/dkms.git/
>
> Changes since 2.0.16:
> Matt Domsch (15):
>       spec file cleanups per re-review in Fedora
>       Look for /etc/sysconfig/module-init-tools to get some values.
>       add bash completion, rpmbuild check, pinit, pass-arch patches from
>       Mandriva.
>       /etc/modprobe.conf aliases fix from Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
>       Add clean, tarball, rpm, and deb targets to Makefile
>       Commit debian/ 2.0.16.1 changes.
>       Use Ubuntu kernel package /etc/kernel/preinst.d and postinst.d/ hooks
>       Move installation, tarball, rpm, and deb creation into Makefile.
>       Add Ubuntu deb packaging for drivers.
>       Add Mike Morgan to AUTHORS
>       add mkdeb help text
>       Lots of updates to enable Ubuntu usage, mkdeb, and mkdriverdisk -d ubuntu.
>       Minor Makefile and debian/postinst fixes
>       Add TODO.
>       Fix Makefile install and deb targets to properly set the version
>       On module uninstall, put any original module back in the right place
>       version 2.0.17
>

Cool. This is probably the wrong list.. but will this be rebuilt in
the dell-software repository soon?

dkms.noarch                              2.0.13-1               dell-software

Thanks.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"



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