Up2date problem : version of DKMS which does not support multiple system ?

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:18:28PM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Pe1850 under RHEL3 ES.
> 
> Today, i ra nthe following command :
> 
> =============================
> [root at mx2 root]# up2date -u
> =============================
> 
> And got this output :
[snip]
> dkms                                    2.0.9          1 noarch

[snip]

> ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
> 
> You are using a version of DKMS which does not support multiple system
> architectures.  Your DKMS tree will now be modified to add this support.
> 
> The upgrade will assume all built modules are for arch: i686
> 
> Fixing directories.
> Creating /var/lib/dkms/aacraid/1.1.4-2302/2.4.21-4.EL/i686...
[snip]


> This is my production mail server....so i can't affort any problem  ;-))
> 
> Any idea of what i should do ?


It should "just work".  You're upgrading DKMS from a version 1.x to
version 2.0.9, and so DKMS must convert its directories into the new
directory structure.  We haven't had any problem reports doing this.

Thanks,
Matt

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