dkms action mkrpm

[Charles_Rose at Dell.com]

Can you send the output of this? It would give us a better idea of what is going on.

 

# dkms status

# dkms mkrpm –verbose -m cifs -v 2.00

 

-Charles Rose

 

From: dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com [mailto:dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bartlett
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:29 PM
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Subject: dkms action mkrpm

 


(This message has been resent as it appears to have not been posted to the list.)

If I have posted this to the wrong list, then my apologies. I am not aware of a dkms users' mailing list.

I had read both the white paper http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf & the man page http://linux.dell.com/dkms/manpage.html and decided to experiment with dkms.

After installing the relevant rpm package (version  2.0.17.6-1.el5.rf) for my OS (CentOS 5) from the RPMForge repository (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/) I found that it did everything as documented.

I am, however, having a problem with the mkrpm action and hope that someone can either assist or advise me with this issue. From the man page I see that "It uses a template .spec file found in /etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkrpm.spec as the basis for the RPM. Alternatively, if DKMS finds a file called /usr/src/<module>-<module-version>/<modules>-dkms-mkrpm.spec it will use that .spec file instead." (For all my testing, I copied the source of a small unused kernel module to the /usr/src/ directory structure, incremented the version number (in its header file) and touched all *.c & *.h files.) On attempting the mkrpm action, both with just the template .spec file and, alternatively, with a correctly named version in the /usr/src/<module>-<moulde-version>/ directory, the action failed with an error message.

(For this example I have used the cifs module.)

# dkms mkrpm -m cifs -v 2.00

Using /etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkrpm.spec

Marking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 (i686) for RPM...

Error! There was a problem creating your rpm.

On inspection of the file system, I saw that only the file /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/cifs-2.00-mktarball.dkms.tgz had been created.

Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Alan.



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