[ATrpms-devel] DKMS now with Make RPM (mkrpm)

[Gary Lerhaupt]

While I'm busy pissing people off on other lists, I've taken the 
suggestion from this list for mkrpm and made it happen.

DKMS 1.93.14 is out with mkrpm support 
(http://linux.dell.com/dkms/testing).

Now you can:

dkms add -m foo -v ver
dkms build -m foo -v ver -k kern1
dkms build -m foo -v ver -k kern2
dkms build -m foo -v ver -k kern3
dkms mkrpm -m foo -v ver -k kern1 -k kern2 -k kern3

This will use /etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkrpm.spec and create an RPM. 
This RPM will contain a DKMS tarball with the module source and, in 
this case, precompiled binaries for the 3 kernels I specified.  When 
installed on the end users system, it will load the tarball and 
install the prebuilts. If it then sees that the currently running 
kernel does not have this module installed, it will kick off a dkms 
build and dkms install to ensure that it does. 

Alternatively, if DKMS finds a file /usr/src/<module>-
<version>/<module>-dkms-mkrpm.spec, it will use that spec file instead 
of the template in /etc/dkms/.  This is useful if you need to modify 
the template spec to change the License, etc, etc. 

Folks, it doesn't get any easier than this.

Let me know what you think of the template, and if we need to make 
changes, I'll be happy.  Generally, though, this follows how Dell has 
already been using DKMS to install kernel module updates via RPMs.

Gary Lerhaupt
Dell Linux Development
http://linux.dell.com