Debian Bug report logs - #529038
dkms uses mkinitrd not mkinitramfs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Neil <neil.stewart@warwick.ac.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dkms uses mkinitrd not mkinitramfs

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:19:52 +0100

Package: dkms
Version: 2.0.22.0-0
Severity: important


Hello. 

The dkms package in testing fails to install modules bcm5974-dkms (from
http://bitmath.org/git/bcm5974-dkms.git) and usbhid-dkms (from
http://bitmath.org/git/usbhid-dkms.git).  The dkms .deb package from Dell
(at http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml installed these modules correctly.

The problem is that Debian testing dkms is trying to use mkinitrd and fails
as mkinitrd is not available in stable or testing. Dell dkms uses
mkinitramfs (which is available) and is successful.

Thank you for maintaining this package!
Best,
Neil.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to POSIX)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential               11.4       Informational list of build-essent
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.25    Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                           4:4.3.2-2  The GNU C compiler
ii  make                          3.81-5     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                1.11             Gives a fake root environment
ii  linux-headers-2.6-amd64 2.6.26+17+lenny1 Header files for Linux 2.6-amd64
ii  linux-headers-2.6.26-2- 2.6.26-15lenny2  Header files for Linux 2.6.26-2-am
pi  linux-image-2.6.26-1-am 2.6.26-13lenny2  Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-2-am 2.6.26-15lenny2  Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
ii  lsb-release             3.2-20           Linux Standard Base version report
ii  menu                    2.1.41           generates programs menu for all me
ii  patch                   2.5.9-5          Apply a diff file to an original
ii  sudo                    1.6.9p17-2       Provide limited super user privile

dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <529038@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dkms: dell version wrong as well

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 14:58:44 +0200

Package: dkms
Followup-For: Bug #529038

let me mention that the dell version of dkms gets it  wrong, too
since it calls mkinitramfs , but it should call
  update-initramfs -u
that also computes and stores some checksums

a.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential               11.4       Informational list of build-essent
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.25    Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                           4:4.3.2-2  The GNU C compiler
ii  make                          3.81-5     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                 1.11            Gives a fake root environment
ii  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-6 2.6.26-13lenny2 Header files for Linux 2.6.26-1-68
ii  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-6 2.6.26-15lenny2 Header files for Linux 2.6.26-2-68
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-13lenny2 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-15lenny2 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
ii  lsb-release              3.2-20          Linux Standard Base version report
ii  menu                     2.1.41          generates programs menu for all me
ii  patch                    2.5.9-5         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  sudo                     1.6.9p17-2      Provide limited super user privile

dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Andrea Mennucc
 "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)

Message #15 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: Neil <neil.stewart@warwick.ac.uk>, 529038@bugs.debian.org, DKMS maintainers <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#529038: dkms uses mkinitrd not mkinitramfs

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:01:22 +0200

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tags 529038 pending
thanks

Hi Neil,

Neil ha scritto:
> The problem is that Debian testing dkms is trying to use mkinitrd and fails
> as mkinitrd is not available in stable or testing. Dell dkms uses
> mkinitramfs (which is available) and is successful.
> 
> Thank you for maintaining this package!

Thank you for your bug report, this is already fixed in our git repository.

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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Message #22 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: A Mennucc <debdev@tonelli.sns.it>

To: 529038@bugs.debian.org

Subject: diff

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:16:48 +0200

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hi,

this attached patch will use 
the proper dpkg-trigger
to update the initrd

a.

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Message #27 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: mennucc1@debian.org, 529038@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#529038: diff

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:48:01 +0200

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Hi,

A Mennucc ha scritto:

> this attached patch will use 
> the proper dpkg-trigger
> to update the initrd

thanks for your patch, dpkg-trigger looks fine to me, but:

> -    # Support /etc/kernel-img.conf (Debian)
> -    if [ -f "/etc/kernel-img.conf" ]; then

Why we should not read /etc/kernel-img.conf and search through the list assigned
to ramdisk?


> -    elif [ -e /etc/SuSE-release ] || [ -d /etc/SuSEconfig ]; then

[..]

Why we should remove all Suse, redhat stuff?




Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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Message #32 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: A Mennucc <debdev@tonelli.sns.it>

To: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#529038: diff

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:15:27 +0200

hi,

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 03:48:01PM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A Mennucc ha scritto:
> 
> > this attached patch will use 
> > the proper dpkg-trigger
> > to update the initrd
> 
> thanks for your patch, dpkg-trigger looks fine to me, but:
> 
> > -    # Support /etc/kernel-img.conf (Debian)
> > -    if [ -f "/etc/kernel-img.conf" ]; then
> 
> Why we should not read /etc/kernel-img.conf and search through the list assigned
> to ramdisk?

because that is what update-initramfs does

> > -    elif [ -e /etc/SuSE-release ] || [ -d /etc/SuSEconfig ]; then
> 
> [..]
> 
> Why we should remove all Suse, redhat stuff?

:-) 

because this is the Debian package (?)

a.

Message #37 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: mennucc1@debian.org, 529038@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#529038: diff

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:44:45 +0200

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Hi,

A Mennucc ha scritto:
> hi,
> 
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 03:48:01PM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A Mennucc ha scritto:
>>
>>> this attached patch will use 
>>> the proper dpkg-trigger
>>> to update the initrd
>> thanks for your patch, dpkg-trigger looks fine to me, but:
>>
>>> -    # Support /etc/kernel-img.conf (Debian)
>>> -    if [ -f "/etc/kernel-img.conf" ]; then
>> Why we should not read /etc/kernel-img.conf and search through the list assigned
>> to ramdisk?z
> 
> because that is what update-initramfs does

Hmm no, it doesn't, but it is in the right because that option is now deprecated.



>>> -    elif [ -e /etc/SuSE-release ] || [ -d /etc/SuSEconfig ]; then
>> [..]
>>
>> Why we should remove all Suse, redhat stuff?
> 
> :-) 
> 
> because this is the Debian package (?)
> 
> a.

Ok, but this will cause a pointless delta between Debian and upstream.


Anyway if I understood correctly, dpkg-trigger should be called from a
maintainer script, and in an update/install process (?) with apt/dpkg. This
doesn't happen always, dkms can be used also in command line. Do you agree?

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Message #42 received at 529038@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: 529038@bugs.debian.org,control@bugs.debian.org,529038-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [6fe5f53] Fix for Bug#529038 committed to git

Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:13:51 +0000

tags 529038 +pending
thanks

Hello,

     The following change has been committed for this bug by
 Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> on Sun, 17 May 2009 19:13:27 +0200.
 The fix will be in the next upload. 
=========================================================================
debian/patches/08-support_kernel-img.conf.patch: Use update-initramfs, it is the default in Debian/Ubuntu and it also computes and stores some checksums. (Closes: #529038)

No need to use the low-level tool mkinitramfs, update-initramfs is a wrapper and
it also computes and stores some checksums.

with update-initramfs no need to check for lilo and do_bootloader in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
=========================================================================

You can check the diff of the fix at:

    http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hanska-guest/dkms.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fe5f53

Message #52 received at 529038-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: 529038-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#529038: fixed in dkms 2.0.22.0-1

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Source: dkms
Source-Version: 2.0.22.0-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dkms, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

dkms_2.0.22.0-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.0.22.0-1.diff.gz
dkms_2.0.22.0-1.dsc
  to pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.0.22.0-1.dsc
dkms_2.0.22.0-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.0.22.0-1_all.deb
dkms_2.0.22.0.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.0.22.0.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 529038@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> (supplier of updated dkms package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:00:35 +0200
Source: dkms
Binary: dkms
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.0.22.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>
Description: 
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Closes: 529038 529059
Changes: 
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   * [d6e0b15] Deleted patches merged in upstream: 01-fix_manpage.patch
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     time modprobe is run (and it is run very often at boot time). Create
     it only if necessary.
   * [3731c00] debian/patches/08-support_kernel-img.conf.patch: Use
     update-initramfs, it is the default in Debian/Ubuntu and it also computes
     and stores some checksums. (Closes: #529038)
   * [f4a197f] debian/patches/16_old_module.patch: Do not move away the old
     module, by default dkms install the new one in
     /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/updates/dkms (Closes: #529059)
   * [db7ffe7] debian/patches/01_kernel_postinst.patch: shut up "which" in the
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